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Plans to cut personnel numbers in half at NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care were unveiled the other day amid drastic cost-cutting procedures.

The 'bonfire of bureaucrats' is focused on removing duplication across the organisations after their workforces swelled throughout the pandemic.

Health secretary Wes Streeting is likewise looking for to tighten his control over the NHS, deliver much better worth for taxpayers and free-up cash for the frontline.

Three more NHS England board members yesterday announced they will stop at the end of this month, following the current resignations of chief executive Amanda Pritchard and nationwide medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis.

The newest leaders to sign up with the exodus are Julian Kelly, the chief financial officer, Emily Lawson, the chief operating officer, and Steve Russell, the chief shipment officer and nationwide director for vaccination and screening.

NHS England is the nationwide quango entrusted with supervising the everyday running of the health service and its long-lasting strategy.

It was developed by the Tories in 2013 to provide it greater political independence however Mr Streeting is eager to gain back tighter control from within his Department.

NHS England said in a declaration: 'As part of the requirement to make finest possible use of taxpayers' money to support frontline services, the size of NHS England will be significantly lowered and might see the size of the centre decline by around half.'

The deeper staffing cuts follow a reduction of about 4,000 to 6,000 workers at NHS England over the past two years and about 800 at the Department of Health and Social Care.

Health secretary Wes Streeting is also seeking to tighten his control over the NHS, in the middle of strategies to cut personnel numbers in half at NHS England and the Department of Health

Former NHS England chief Amanda Pritchard will step down from her position at the end of this month

NHS England chief shipment officer Steve Russell (left) and chief operating officer Emily Lawson (ideal) are among the newest managers to join the exodus

Sir Jim Mackey, who will become interim chief executive at the start of April, will set up a shift group within NHS England to 'lead the radical decrease and reshaping of the centre with the Department of Health and Social Care'.

He said: 'We know that today's news is disturbing for our personnel, and we have significant difficulties and modifications ahead.'We aim to have a shift group in place to begin on the first April 2025 to help lead us through this period.'

Ms Pritchard stated in a note to personnel, seen by the Health Service Journal: 'In the last couple of weeks, I have stated I believe the time is ideal for extreme reform of the size and functions of the centre to finest support local NHS systems and providers to provide for clients and drive the federal government's reform priorities.'

She said Mr Streeting had asked Sir Jim and Penny Dash, the incoming NHS chair, to 'lead this work, delivering significant changes in our relationship with DHSC to remove duplication'.

Mr Streeting stated: 'I 'd like to put on record my thanks to Julian, Emily and Steve for their commitment as public servants, and their operate in specific assisting steer the NHS through the pandemic.

'I have actually delighted in dealing with each of them over the last 8 months and I've been impressed by their skill and focus on providing enhancement for clients and staff.

'We are getting in a duration of critical change for our NHS. 'With a stronger relationship in between the Department for Health and Social Care and NHS England, we will work together with the speed and seriousness needed to satisfy the scale of the challenge.'

As of June last year, NHS England used just under 15,000 full-time comparable staff, including irreversible, short-lived and consultancy. The Department of Health and Social Care had around 9,000, consisting of the UK Health Security Agency. These are both around 30 percent more than in January 2020.

NHS England chief financial officer Julian Kelly has also included his name to leaders resigning from their positions

Professor Stephen Powis, the NHS national medical director, announced last week he would step down this summertime

UNISON head of health Helga Pile stated: 'Staff will be not surprisingly concerned about this abrupt modification of direction.

'The number of redundancies being sought at NHS England has trebled in just a matter of weeks.

'Em ployees there have currently been through the mill with limitless rounds of reorganisation. What was already a difficult possibility has now become more like a problem.

'Fixing a broken NHS needs an appropriate strategy, with central bodies resourced and handled efficiently so local services are supported.

'Rushing through cuts brings a danger of creating a further, more complex mess and could ultimately hold the NHS back. That would pull down the very people who need it most, the clients.'

Matthew Taylor, president of the NHS Confederation, said: 'These changes are taking place at a scale and rate not expected to start with, but provided the huge savings that the NHS requires to make this year it makes good sense to lower areas of duplication at a nationwide level and for the NHS to be led by a leaner centre.

'NHS England has actually already provided considerable savings and assisted to provide improvements in performance, but nationwide bodies and regional NHS leaders understand that more is required this year.

'These changes represent the biggest improving of the NHS's nationwide architecture in more than a decade. It is essential that local NHS organisations and other bodies are associated with this change as the instant next steps become clearer, so that a maximum operating design can be developed.

'This need to have to do with doing things differently for the advantage of regional neighborhoods as both patients and taxpayers, as well as for staff ahead of annual study results on Thursday that are yet again anticipated to reveal the severe challenges they deal with.'

Wes Streeting