업체명 : Wes Streeting Cuts NHS HQ Staff Numbers In Half

Plans to cut staff numbers in half at NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care were yesterday in the middle of drastic cost-cutting steps.

The 'bonfire of bureaucrats' is aimed at removing duplication across the organisations after their workforces swelled during the pandemic.

Health secretary Wes Streeting is also seeking to tighten his control over the NHS, deliver better worth for taxpayers and free-up money for the frontline.

Three more NHS England board members the other day revealed they will give up at the end of this month, following the current resignations of chief executive Amanda Pritchard and nationwide medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis.

The most current leaders to sign up with the exodus are Julian Kelly, the chief financial officer, Emily Lawson, the chief operating officer, and Steve Russell, the chief shipment officer and nationwide director for vaccination and screening.

NHS England is the nationwide quango charged with overseeing the day to day running of the health service and its long-lasting strategy.

It was developed by the Tories in 2013 to give it greater political self-reliance however Mr Streeting is eager to gain back tighter control from within his Department.

NHS England said in a declaration: 'As part of the need to make best possible use of taxpayers' cash to support frontline services, the size of NHS England will be drastically reduced and might see the size of the centre decline by around half.'

The deeper staffing cuts follow a reduction of about 4,000 to 6,000 staff members at NHS England over the previous two years and about 800 at the Department of Health and Social Care.

Health secretary Wes Streeting is likewise looking for to tighten his control over the NHS, amid plans to cut staff numbers in half at NHS England and the Department of Health

Former NHS England chief Amanda Pritchard will step down from her position at the end of this month

NHS England chief delivery officer Steve Russell (left) and chief running officer Emily Lawson (ideal) are amongst the most current employers to join the exodus

Sir Jim Mackey, who will become interim president at the start of April, will set up a shift group within NHS England to 'lead the extreme decrease and reshaping of the centre with the Department of Health and Social Care'.

He said: 'We understand that today's news is unsettling for our staff, and we have significant challenges and modifications ahead.'We intend to have a shift team in location to start on the 1st April 2025 to help lead us through this duration.'

Ms Pritchard said in a note to personnel, seen by the Health Service Journal: 'In the last couple of weeks, I have said I think the time is right for radical reform of the size and functions of the centre to finest support regional NHS systems and service providers to deliver for patients and drive the government's reform priorities.'

She stated Mr Streeting had actually asked Sir Jim and Penny Dash, the inbound NHS England chair, to 'lead this work, providing considerable changes in our relationship with DHSC to eradicate duplication'.

Mr Streeting said: 'I want to put on record my thanks to Julian, Emily and Steve for their dedication as public servants, and their work in particular helping guide the NHS through the pandemic.

'I've taken pleasure in working with each of them over the last 8 months and I have actually been impressed by their ability and concentrate on providing improvement for clients and staff.

'We are getting in a duration of critical transformation for our NHS. 'With a more powerful relationship in between the Department for Health and Social Care and NHS England, we will interact with the speed and urgency needed to satisfy the scale of the obstacle.'

Since June last year, NHS England utilized just under 15,000 full-time equivalent personnel, consisting of permanent, short-lived and consultancy. The Department of Health and Social Care had around 9,000, including the UK Health Security Agency. These are both around 30 percent more than in January 2020.

NHS England chief financial officer Julian Kelly has also added his name to leaders resigning from their positions

Professor Stephen Powis, the NHS national medical director, revealed last week he would step down this summer

UNISON head of health Helga Pile said: 'Staff will be naturally worried about this abrupt change of direction.

'The variety of redundancies being looked for at NHS England has trebled in just a matter of weeks.

'Em ployees there have already been through the mill with limitless rounds of reorganisation. What was currently a difficult possibility has now ended up being more like a problem.

'Fixing a broken NHS needs a correct strategy, with main bodies resourced and managed successfully so local services are supported.

'Rushing through cuts brings a risk of creating an even more, more complicated mess and might ultimately hold the NHS back. That would pull down the very individuals who require it most, the patients.'

Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: 'These modifications are taking place at a scale and speed not expected to start with, however given the huge cost savings that the NHS requires to make this year it makes sense to lower areas of duplication at a nationwide level and for the NHS to be led by a leaner centre.

'NHS England has already delivered significant cost savings and helped to deliver enhancements in productivity, however nationwide bodies and regional NHS leaders understand that more is needed this year.

'These modifications represent the most significant reshaping of the NHS's national architecture in more than a decade. It is essential that local NHS organisations and other bodies are involved in this improvement as the instant next steps become clearer, so that an optimum operating design can be developed.

'This should have to do with doing things in a different way for the benefit of regional communities as both patients and taxpayers, in addition to for staff ahead of annual survey results on Thursday that are yet again anticipated to reveal the severe challenges they deal with.'

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