The Guardian Point of NHS England: Political Cover for Financing Battle | Editorial

SIR Keir Starmer threw his decision to cancel NHS England – the world’s largest Quango – as a bold strike against bureaucracy. This step is designed to reduce waste, “the funding of money into the confrontation line” and the English NHS place under democratic control. It is a declaration of the intention of the Prime Minister who wants the Labor Party to be a party the largest government but rather the most intelligent government. At least, this is the theory. Reality, as it was always, more complicated.

This is less than the major health repair and more exercise in strategic locations. Minister of Health, Wes StreetThe engineer of this plan participates in a sensitive budget law: persuading the cabinet that NHS can remain within the budget limits while pressing at one time to obtain more money that he knows that the health service will inevitably require. The execution of the NHS- which allows NHS- allowing the country to claim that it is transferring money from managers into patient care, which is a necessary concession when preparing to argue to obtain more investment in the cabinet.

The problem is that the numbers do not add. Axing NHS England will be modest. The cost of the organization to the treasury is 2 billion pounds, which is a small part of the NHS budget of 183 billion pounds for 2025/26. From this, about 400 million pounds sterling It is spent on employees who work directly with local NHS bodies, and these roles may continue in a form. The savings do not come anywhere to fill next year 6.6 billion pounds of a financing gap. At best, a few hundred million pounds are freed. In the worst case, it changes the costs elsewhere while causing months of disturbances in an actually exaggerated system.

NHS faces the increasing pressure to reduce costs, with the employment consultant insisting that he must live within the limits of his capabilities. Hospital funds will need to tighten their belts further. It does not require a healthy expert in realizing that when the resources are reduced, the patient’s request does not disappear in a magical way – it simply reappears elsewhere. If societal services are close to the books balance, then press GPS and A & E will only increase their intensification. If it is said to the health service More with lessThe danger is that it simply ends with less.

The embrace of Sir Kerr for the Reform Acts of Mr. Streeting is a calculated gambling. The Prime Minister supports NHS actions that may not be presented as promised. However, his support enhances the position of Mr. Streeting with the advisor, Rachel Reeves, who faces a financial deficiency on the horizon. With high taxes off the table and their financial straitjacket in place, it is in place, Spending After 2025/26, the only remaining path appears.

NHS may have won greatly in the last budget, but with the Darzi report warning, still in a “serious problem”. Years Under investment And crowded hospitals, with no relief from Exaggerated The social welfare system, left it struggling. Without more funding, it cannot meet the increasing demand for the aging of the population, not to mention the expansion of its working power. Mr. Streeting should continue to press the cabinet, and cancel each appeal against the money in the modern language represented in the “reform update”.

Such rhetorical fitness, if there is nothing else, then the skill of Westminster is equivalent. But whether it provides his three big transformations – moving care outside hospitals, giving priority to the prevention and numbered NHS – still should be seen. If the health service deteriorates more, the government will find that it has not only failed to repair NHS but has taken its decline.

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