Wes Streeting admitted today that the NHS is 'addicted to too many expenses' while he is preparing to wave the ax over hundreds of more Quangos.
The health secretary said that he would not “cover sugar, the fact that there will be a considerable number of job losses,” because he is starting a commotion of health service structures.
He and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced the abolition of NHS England on Thursday as part of an attempt to lower bureaucracy.
And Mr Streeting has since suggested that hundreds of more health bodies can be in the shooting line if he supervises the reorganization of Labor of the NHS.
In conversation with the BBC this morning, he said that his experience with running the Ministry of Health and Social Care since last summer had 'driven' to announce the reforms.
This was despite the fact that he previously promised, prior to the general election victory of Labor in July, that he would not carry out a major reorganization of the NHS.
“In the past eight months I have experienced myself – in terms of how the NHS is set up and the way it works and the level of duplication, male marking, waste, inefficiency – led me to make the announcement the prime minister and I made on Thursday,” he said.
Wes Streeting admitted that the NHS is 'addicted to too high spending' while he is preparing to wave the ax over hundreds of more quangos
Speaking with the BBC, the health secretary said that his experience with running the Ministry of Health and Social Care since last summer had 'driven' to announce the reforms.
Mr. Streeting defended his reorganization of health service structures and said that he “foreses an NHS when ambulances do not arrive on time”
In a newspaper article this weekend, Mr Streeting said that the abolition of NHS England is the beginning, not the end 'of the reforms of Labor.
When asked about his possible targeting of hundreds of more health bodies and whose jobs can now also be at risk, the health secretary told the BBC: 'I am going after the bureaucracy, not the people who work in it.
'I cannot cover the fact that there will be a considerable number of job losses.
'And we will want to ensure that we treat people honestly and support them well through that process.
'I don't criticize them, but I have to make sure that the system is set up properly.
'Because I am a NHS chairman when ambulances do not arrive on time, where people cannot get a doctor when they need one, where NHS -dheelkunde hardly exists in parts of the country.
“These are major fundamental problems and we must ensure that every cent is placed in the right place.”
But Mr Streeting refused to say which other health chances could be deleted.
'We will soon publish the findings of Dr. Penny Dash, who did a major assessment of the way we regulate in the NHS, “he added.
“There is an over regulation. Frontline NHS leaders complain to me that they can provide better care for patients and they can deliver better value for taxpayers.
'But they often receive a barrage of commands – sometimes conflicting and competitive requirements – from the Ministry of Health, from NHS England and the wide range of supervisors in this space.
'If we can simplify this, it is a complicated system, it is a complex system.
“But if we can simplify as much as possible and abolish this idea that everything in a system can be ordered and controlled with levers that are drawn in Westminster and Whitehall, we will set up the NHS to succeed.”
Previously speaking with Sky News, Mr Streeting confirmed that integrated care signs were obliged to make 50 percent cuts with a certain focus on management costs'.
He said that he and health bosses 'confronted with a financial planning round for the coming year, where systems brought back financial plans to us that would have had a span between £ 5 and £ 6 billion before the new financial year even started'.
“I am afraid that this will speak to the culture that I have identified before the general elections where the NHS is addicted to too high spending is addicted to running routine shortages,” he added.
The health secretary said that in the NHS there was an 'assumption' that “someone will come by to save them, in a way that could never do.”
In writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr. Streeting had suggested that hundreds of more Quangos could be in the fire line after his downfall of NHS England.
“The abolition of NHS England – the world's greatest quango – is the beginning, not the end,” he wrote.
'Both patients and staff can see the inefficiency and waste in the health service.
“My team and I rule by budgets, with a ruthless focus on cutting bloated bureaucracy.”
In a round of TV interviews, Mr Streeting refused to say whatever other health bodies could be deleted after the abolition of Labor of NHS England
NHS England has managed the health service since 2012, when it was established to reduce political interference in the NHS-IS that Mr Streeting described as an act of 'afterwards' to prevent the fault for failures.
But on Thursday, Sir Keir announced that this would end, because he unexpectedly revealed that the government would abolish NHS England in an attempt to avoid 'duplication'.
Mr Streeting suggested that there would be more, and said that the new NHS England had identified Penny Dash 'hundreds of bodies who had the safety of the patient and the regulations landscape messy, so that both patients and staff had lost in a labyrinth of paperwork and frustration. “
The step to scrapping NHS England and other health -related Quangos is a change in direction for Mr Streeting, who said in January of this year that he would not start a reorganization of the NHS.
He told The Health Service Journal that he could spend 'a lot of time' on reorganization 'and not make any difference to the patient's interest', and said that he would concentrate on trying to eliminate waste and duplication '.
But in his newspaper article he said that he had heard former conservative health ministers 'Bemoan' that he had not abolished NHS England.
“If we had not acted this week, the transformational reform that the NHS needs would not have been possible,” he added.
The government expects that the scrapping of NHS England will take two years and save 'hundreds of millions of pounds' that can be spent on front line services.
But during the week Down Street would not be attracted to how many people had to deal with redundancy as a result of the changes.
