4 hours Ago By Kate Devlin
Sir Keir Starmer has announced that NHS England will be abolished to free up more money for frontline services and bring management of the health service "back into democratic control''. In a speech he said: "We're going to cut bureaucracy across the state. Focus government on the priorities of working people, shift money to the front line.
" He added: "I'm bringing management of the NHS back into democratic control by abolishing the arms length body - NHS England. That will put the NHS back at the heart of government where it belongs, freeing it to focus on patients, less bureaucracy, with more money for nurses. An NHS refocused on cutting waiting times at your hospital.
" The prime minister also warned that the abolition of the agency was not the only “tough choice” he would make. He said: "Tough choices won't just stop there. In this era, they will keep on coming.
Our task is clear, national security, national renewal, driving change forward with a plan for change, focused on the interests of working people, securing our future together." But he also defended civil servants saying the problem was not that they had the “wrong mindframe, or anything like that”. The Labour leader also confirmed plans to cut the cost of compliance with regulation for businesses by 25 per cent.
He said: "Today I'm issuing a new target for our government. We will make sure compliance costs for businesses are cut by a quarter. That's 25 per cent compliance costs that are going to go - and they will.
"That's less red tape, more delivery, renewing our country with growth.".
