The Tories created NHS England in 2012, basically an independently ran management layer for the NHS. Labour is bringing it back under government control.
There was a lot of extra bureaucracy by adding this additional ‘NHS England’ layer, with a lot of nurses in particular hired to do it.
Yes, a lot of these people’s administrative/management jobs will no longer be needed, but it’s very likely a great deal of these people (who again are predominantly nurses) will be hired by the (government-ran) NHS.
I’m not surprised to see the Mail, Express, and Telegraph spin this news as Labour scrapping the NHS or mass sacking NHS workers, but I’m sad to see the Guardian doing the same.
This is such a misleading headline.
The Tories created NHS England in 2012, basically an independently ran management layer for the NHS. Labour is bringing it back under government control.
There was a lot of extra bureaucracy by adding this additional ‘NHS England’ layer, with a lot of nurses in particular hired to do it.
Yes, a lot of these people’s administrative/management jobs will no longer be needed, but it’s very likely a great deal of these people (who again are predominantly nurses) will be hired by the (government-ran) NHS.
I’m not surprised to see the Mail, Express, and Telegraph spin this news as Labour scrapping the NHS or mass sacking NHS workers, but I’m sad to see the Guardian doing the same.
Agreed, this has the potential to be a very good thing for the NHS