Loss of staff will be at least twice as big as thought, as new NHS England chief tells regional boards to cut costs by 50%
  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    This is such a misleading headline.

    The Tories created NHS England in 2012, basically an independently ran management layer for the NHS. Labour is bringing it back under government control.

    There was a lot of extra bureaucracy by adding this additional ‘NHS England’ layer, with a lot of nurses in particular hired to do it.

    Yes, a lot of these people’s administrative/management jobs will no longer be needed, but it’s very likely a great deal of these people (who again are predominantly nurses) will be hired by the (government-ran) NHS.