1- British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced that his government will dismantle a significant portion of the country’s health bureaucracy and bring it back under “democratic control.” Overhauling the struggling National Health Service (NHS) is one of the Labour government’s top domestic priorities, and on Thursday the prime minister announced that NHS England, the lower government body that oversees the delivery of healthcare in the largest of Britain’s four nations, will be closed.
2- Starmer said: One of the reasons we are removing it is duplication. Believe it or not, we have a communications team in NHS England, we have a communications team in the government health department, we have a strategy team in NHS England, we have a strategy team in the government department.” Starmer is right. There are a lot of teams out there, and they are constantly getting paid and fed by the people’s taxes, but there is not an inch of progress in the NHS.
3- There are some institutions that are embedded in the state and appear to be doing nothing. NHS England is one of them. They appear to be doing very important work, but in fact they are not doing anything. The NHS is getting worse, but these bureaucratic staff continue to live happily on their salaries. Closing down the units that are a burden on the people without doing anything will be one of Starmer’s greatest achievements.