The NHS is the largest public sector organisation in England, seeing 1.7 million people each day including in patients’ own homes, local GP surgeries, pharmacies and hospitals. It employs 1.7 million people, is funded largely out of general taxation, and has an annual budget of about £190 billion.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that NHS England will be dissolved, bringing the National Health Service (NHS) back under direct government control. He stated that politicians, not an independent body,

NHS Engand, the administrative body which runs the national health service, will be abolished in a bid to slash red tape, Sir Keir Starmer has announced.The prime minister said he was axing the "arms-length body" to bring management of the NHS "back into democratic control" .