Jacqui Wise , 2025-05-15 12:21:00
MPs have criticised the lack of a clear plan for the forthcoming abolition of NHS England and the halving of staff in integrated care boards across the country, demanding that the government set out how such a major structural change will affect key services.
The report by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee on the Department for Health and Social Care accounts for 2023-24 said that the government “lacks a grip of the financial pressures it faces and lacks adequate plans for key areas of spend and activity.”1 It said the department’s annual report was late again and contained too little information on plans for social care, the move to prevention of ill health, and how to harness technological advances to improve the NHS’s productivity.
In March the government announced that NHS England would be …
