{"id":220655,"date":"2025-06-28T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220655\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:41:09","slug":"hundreds-of-nhs-quangos-to-be-scrapped-in-10-year-health-strategy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220655\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of NHS quangos to be scrapped in 10-year health strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Days before the release of the government&#8217;s 10-year health plan, the new head of NHS England has said too many &#8220;fossilised&#8221; ways of working have been retained by the health service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his first interview since his appointment as chief executive of NHSE, Sir Jim Mackey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/06\/27\/jim-mackey-interview-nhs-sees-public-inconvenience\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Daily Telegraph, external<\/a> the NHS had built &#8220;mechanisms to keep the public away&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve made it really hard, and we&#8217;ve probably all been on the end of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got a relative in hospital, so you&#8217;re ringing a number on a ward that no-one ever answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The ward clerk only works nine to five or they&#8217;re busy doing other stuff; the GP practice scramble every morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It feels like we&#8217;ve built mechanisms to keep the public away because it&#8217;s an inconvenience,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Days before the release of the government&#8217;s 10-year health plan, the new head of NHS England has said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114759629906602615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}