THOUSANDS of NHS office jobs are facing the chop — as three more top-ranking officials resigned yesterday in Labour’s drastic health service reforms.
Back office staff numbers will be cut by half at NHS England and the Department of Health.
NHS boss Amanda Pritchard, stepped down from her role last month[/caption]
The two organisations have a headcount of almost 20,000, meaning 10,000 could go.
NHS England’s chief financial, operations and delivery officers all quit on Monday.
Julian Kelly, Emily Lawson and Steve Russell, who were paid a combined £545,000 last year, follow the organisation’s medical director and CEO out of the door in Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s blitz.
He is making cuts after a review by Lord Darzi said over-management had become a burden on medical staff.
Mr Streeting will share power between local health boards and civil servants in his department.
He said: “We will work with the speed and urgency needed to meet the scale of the challenge.”
In an email to NHS staff, CEO Amanda Pritchard — who will step down at the end of March — said the shake-up would “eradicate duplication” and free more than £175million.
Her replacement and incoming ‘transition CEO’, Sir James Mackey, is setting up a new transformation team to overhaul NHS England.
He said: “We have significant challenges and changes ahead.”
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