The abolition of NHS England: radical or reckless? (5 April 2025)

Summary

In March 2025, the UK Government announced that it was disbanding NHS England, the arm's length government body that oversees healthcare delivery in England. Although there is public support for change in the NHS, a polling report by UCL Policy Labs and More in Common concluded that the “British people are looking for change, but not chaos, radicalism, not recklessness.” This article looks at where the dissolution of NHS England falls in the current UK context.