UK PM Keir Starmer scraps NHS England to bring health services under ‘democratic control’

The National Health Service has seen an impact on its services due to COVID pandemic, an aging population and a series of strikes which has been dragging the economy.

Houses taking decades to be built.

Hours of paperwork drowning small businesses.

The NHS costing taxpayers more but delivering less.

I’m changing it.

Bureaucracy abolished, hurdles removed, blockers called out.

A state that gives you and your family the security you deserve. pic.twitter.com/4bYTXbEJEg

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) March 13, 2025

According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics, about 2.8 million people in Britain are economically inactive due to long-term sickness.

PM Starmer, in a speech in the northern city of Hull, said “I can’t, in all honesty, explain to the British people why they should spend their money on two layers of bureaucracy.”

Starmer further said on Thursday that abolishing NHS England would help in removing an unnecessary layer of red tape, and the frontline hospitals would have more cash to aid in the healthcare services.

UK’s health secretary Wes Streeting said, “Final nail in the coffin of the disastrous 2012 reorganisation, which led to the longest waiting times, lowest patient satisfaction, and most expensive NHS in history,” The Guardian reported.

The National Health Service England was set up in 2012 under a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government as a separate “arms length” agency to aid in deciding the spending priorities, oversee the service in England and negotiate contracts.