Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced he is abolishing NHS England in a wide-ranging speech on Thursday morning (13 March).
This move will put the NHS "back at the heart of government where it belongs," he said during a speech by freeing it to focus on patients with less bureaucracy. He added that the NHS will "refocus" on cutting waiting times.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: "When money is so tight, we can't justify such a complex bureaucracy with two organisations doing the same jobs. We need more doers, and fewer checkers, which is why I'm devolving resources and responsibilities to the NHS frontline."
NHS England will now be brought back into the Department of Health and Social Care.
The department said the reforms would reverse the 2012 reorganisation of the NHS "which created burdensome layers of bureaucracy without any clear lines of accountability".
Date: 13 March