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Amanda Pritchard resigned as NHS England’s executive director on Tuesday, as the Government had hinted in his intention to tighten Whitehall control over the combat health service.
Announcement of his departure, NHS England said TrailerReplacement, Sir James Mackey, would get a “lecture radically transforming” relationship between health care and government.
Health Secretary Wes Stroeting said that Mackey “agreed to perform to provide a new leadership for a new era for NHS” and that ministers “demand a new connection” with a health service, which is facing a lag of 7.46 million appointments.
Mackey, who is the CEO of Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and performed the duty of a temporary main operating clerk of England in 2023, was appointed “NHS England Transition Director, Bodies conducted by Health Service in England.
Next month he will work closely with Pritchard, before he took over the place on April 1.
Mackey “knows NHS on the inside, can see how to change, and it will work with the speed and urgency we need,” Streetsing added.
Financial Times has previously reported that the Government will strive to unofficially bring in more leadership NHS England to the central government in pressure to improve responsibility for the operation of the service.
Government officials denied that there was a plan to officially connect the NHS England with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare – a move that would reverse the operational independence that was served in accordance with the disputed reforms made in 2012 by Andrew Lanley and then a conservative health secretary.
Pritchard said in a statement that it was “an extremely difficult decision to give up.” She added: “It was a huge privilege to lead the NHS in England through what was undoubtedly the most difficult period in its history.”
Her decision is followed by criticism of MPs in recent weeks for her leadership of a health care service, with the influential committee of public accounts of the House of Home alerted that officials “did not seem ready to give priority” to government reform plans.
However, one government official insisted that she “decided to resign and was all very kind.”
Pritchard, who joined the NHS graduate scheme in 1997 after leaving the university, was the first woman to run the NHS England and was on the site of 2021. Previously, she was the executive director of one of the leading hospitals in the country, Guy and St Thomas’ to London.
Richard Meddings, leaving the NHS England chairman, said Pritchard’s “Huge Loss for the NHS” was published and “earned billions of pounds of savings for taxpayers.”
