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NHS England, formerly the NHS Commissioning Board for England, is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care. It oversees the budget, planning, delivery and day-to-day operation of the commissioning side of the National Health Service in England as set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 . [ 3 ]
Since April 2013 NHS England has been an independent statutory body. [4] It has been argued that NHS England's independence gives the Chief Executive 'the potential to be a prominent national figure able to speak on behalf of the NHS'. [5] Its clinicians, managers and health experts are employed as public officials not as civil servants.
After extensive privatisation of the public sector during the Margaret Thatcher administration, there remain few statutory corporations in the UK. Privatisation began in the late 1970s, and notable privatisations include the Central Electricity Generating Board, British Rail, and more recently Royal Mail.
THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Opinions on NHS reform are split between supporting private sector involvement to reduce waiting lists and concerns over ethics, funding, and preserving public service values
Availability of Orkambi on the NHS; Brexit – medicines, medical devices and substances of human origin; Budget and NHS long-term plan; Calls for cases of GP visa issues; Care Quality Commission; Care Quality Commission's State of Care Report 2018-19; Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services; Childhood obesity; Childhood obesity follow-up 2019
The NHS Commissioning Board was renamed 'NHS England' on 1 April 2013. [ citation needed ] In September 2011, The Daily Telegraph revealed that Nicholson claimed expenses of over £50,000 a year on top of a basic salary of £200,000 and benefits in kind of £37,600 at a time when he was asking the health service to make cuts of £20 billion by ...
Though the title 'National Health Service' implies a single health service for the United Kingdom, in reality one NHS was created for England and Wales accountable to the Secretary of State for Health, with a separate NHS created for Scotland accountable to the Secretary of State for Scotland by the passage of the National Health Service ...
Jeremy Vanes has been chair of the trust since 2020, ... NHS trust chair to step down after critical report. Chloe Hughes - BBC News, West Midlands. October 30, 2024 at 6:36 AM.