Sir Keir Starmer has announced the abolition of NHS England in a move he said would slash bureaucracy, save money and bring management of the health system “back into democratic control”.

said he was angered by the shadow defence secretary's response to a newspaper interview by Andrew Lansley, in which the shadow Cabinet Office minister claimed that racism permeated the party.

The scrapping of NHS England reverses the operational independence granted to the service under controversial reforms introduced in 2012 by Andrew Lansley ... Tory shadow Cabinet Office minister.

NHS England was created by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government as part of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s 2012 reforms ... Not everyone is convinced. Former cabinet secretary Gus ...

It looks like a return to the NHS reforms instituted by Andrew Lansley – yes, a Tory. Further, can you imagine any Tory leader from Cameron to Sunak doing what the PM announced today… getting to grips ...

You have to ask: is Keir Starmer the best Tory in contemporary politics? Is he not just the heir to Blair (minus the charisma) but to Margaret Thatcher? And is his Irish Svengali, Morgan McSweeney ...

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NHS England (NHSE) was established in 2013 as part of Andrew Lansley’s health service reforms. The aim was to take the NHS “out of politics”, the NHSE always being separate to the NHS itself. The body ...

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Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed plans to abolish the "arm's-length body" NHS England. But what is the quango - and why is the prime minister scrapping it? What is NHS England and how does it work?

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NHS England was established in 2013 by former Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley to give it greater independence and autonomy. Government sources have said the overall plan is to bring NHS ...