NHS England will lose half of its employees and a huge witch of its senior management team as part of a brutal restructuring under its new president.
Its working power will shrink from 13,000 to about 6500, where the entire teams are dismantled to save money and avoid “duplication” with officials in the department health Social care (DHSC).
NHS England employees said they were “in shock and awe” on the scale of job discounts, which exceeds 2000 jobs to save 175 million pounds, announced only weeks ago.
DHSC will also become the smallest result of a process that you will watch closely from April with NHS England, although you will step much fewer employees from the latter. Changes will be given Wes StreetMinister of Health, and further control of the organization responsible for the operational performance of the health service in England.
“These changes are the largest formation of NHS national architecture for more than a decade,” said Matthew Taylor, CEO of NHS Confedration, which represents NHS in England.
Amanda British, the outgoing CEO of England, broke the news of employees today in an e -mail that showed the streets, and may incite to reduce the size of the organization.
He asked Jim Makki, her successor, and Dr. Benny Dash, the new NHS chair. [how NHS staff refer to NHS England and the DHSC’s respective headquarters in London]Bretshard said. This will “make major changes in our relationship with DHSC to eliminate duality.”
Bretshard announced two weeks agoAfter weeks of conversations with the street, she was stepped at the end of the month.
The “Official Change Program Council” or “Transition Team” for DHSC and NHS England officials will be supervised by the slimming of the organizers. It will submit reports to Dash and Alan Milborn, former exhaustion The Minister of Health was appointed to the street as a non -executive director for DHSC and the heads of the council.
“As part of this, they will search for ways to radically reduce the size of NHS England, which can witness the center’s decline in about half,” said Britthard. She added that the news will be “very worrying” and includes “uncertainty and anxiety” for employees.
Bretshard has also announced that Julian Kelly, CEO of NHS England, will be followed by Operations CEO, Emily Lawson and Delivery Chief Steve Russell, outside the door this month.
“They feel this is the time to move forward and allow a new transition team, led by Jim, to reshape how NHS England and DHSC work together.” Professor Sir Stephen Boris, National Service Director, It was announced last Thursday that he will also leave.
“People here have been expecting a change over the past two weeks, but not with the same change as it is clear now. They feel confused, anxious and fearful,” said one of the NHS employees in England.
“The speed that Emily Lawson, Julian Kelly and Steve Russell are confusing.”
The street did not hide its ambition to obtain more power to direct NHS England, which was almost independent of ministerial control as a result of the Ministry of Health Andrew Lansley in 2012, as part of the largest reform of NHS since its foundation.
the The guardian revealed last month Thousands of jobs would have been working in NHS England and Last week revealed that Maki was planning a major operation The Supreme Command team in NHS England. More departure is expected.
Maki and Bretshard warned against NHS leaders last week that the organization is facing an increase in 6.6 billion pounds in the fiscal year 2025/26 and that “the basic reset of the financial system” will help “obtain a grip from this position.”
