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‘You can’t cut your way to growth,’ says PCS head as Reeves confirms move to cut administrative costs by 15% by 2030Rachel Reeves’s planned cuts of £2bn to government departments will hit frontline services from jobcentres to HMRC phone lines and effor…
Thinktank predicts PM will not realise ambition for 92% of patients in England to wait less than 18 weeks for planned care by 2029Keir Starmer is unlikely to fulfil his pledge to restore the maximum 18-week wait for planned hospital care before the nex…
Labour MPs uneasy as chancellor prepares even deeper reductions that economists say will harm key servicesRachel Reeves will announce the biggest spending cuts since austerity at next week’s spring statement after ruling out tax rises as a way to close…
Lord Darzi’s undeclared interests in four companies included $500,000 of shares in US-based healthcare ventureThe independent peer Lord Darzi, a senior adviser to the government on the NHS, failed to officially declare shareholdings in healthcare compa…
Chancellor tells financial, environmental and health watchdogs she wants to cut down on overlapping regulationRegulators will face twice-yearly performance reviews from ministers, aimed at forcing them to be more growth-friendly, as the chancellor warn…
Health secretary’s comments that too many people are ‘written off’ prompts warnings against stigmatising peopleWes Streeting’s comments that there is an “overdiagnosis” of some mental health conditions has prompted experts to warn against stigmatising …
Health secretary says too many people are being ‘written off’ and that is driving ministers’ changes to welfareThe health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he believes there is an “overdiagnosis” of some mental health conditions as well as “too many p…
Health secretary says the scrapping of NHS England is ‘beginning, not end’ of bid to slash ‘bloated bureaucracy’The health secretary has declared that scrapping NHS England is “the beginning, not the end” and has vowed to continue “slashing bloated bur…
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%The jobs cull from the government’s radical restructuring of the NHS will be at least twice as big as previously thought, with oth…
Keir Starmer says he loves civil servants so much he is abolishing NHS England to give them more time to do other thingsCall it Project Chainsaw. It usually takes a government a couple of years or so to blame the government for stopping it from achievi…