The Prime Minister stood before a very bored-looking audience in Hull today and announced the first stage of Project Chainsaw, a radical reform of what he calls the flabby and over-cautious state.
But if you were sitting at home watching me and my co-presenter this morning, losing the will to live, perhaps you’re waiting for a new knee. Did Starmer channel his inner Elon Musk and get tough on wasteful spending?
Let’s just say it was the polar opposite of that. But did you see a radical refiguring of a broken system that guarantees a new set of teeth if you arrive from Calais on a dinghy, but may not be so rewarding if you’ve spent a lifetime paying into a system that frankly may not turn up when you call 999.
Abolishing NHS England sounds impressive on paper — a whole taxpayer-funded, non-governmental organisation that makes serious decisions on healthcare services, instead of sitting idly.
Bev Turner shared here views on abolishing the NHS
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NHS England will now amalgamate with the Department for Health and Social Care. Not so much an abolition, then, but a merger.
Think about it: NHS England currently employs about 15,000 people; the DHSC employs only 3,000.
Do you really think a Labour government is going to make over 10,000 civil servants redundant? And if they can, it begs the question – What have they been doing all day, apart from attending meetings about the quality of their rainbow lanyards?
The unions are already kicking up a fuss, so don’t get too excited. In seven months, this government has spent £650 million on consultants in America.
Musk simply went in with his accountancy team and a gang of tech geeks, and made an alleged $100 billion of taxpayer savings with the flick of a pen.
So, I bet you these merging departments in this country will cost thousands, perhaps hundreds of millions more — and that’s before they’ve spent money on a new logo.
And what changes might they want to bring into health that will require centralised government control? Just think about it.
Keir Starmer revealed that he is abolishing the NHS
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For that is what they now have. Reorganising is normally just a way of creating the illusion of progress.
NHS England, incidentally, used to be called the NHS Commissioning Board for England.
This will simply be its third iteration, burning your taxpayer cash with no genuine imagination about how to change the NHS so that new knees and GP appointments become the norm.