Sajid Javid presses ahead with Bill to give himself more control of NHS despite ‘power grab’ accusations
The i says Sajid Javid pressed ahead on Tuesday with a huge overhaul of hospitals which will hand him more powers to issue instructions to the National Health Service.
The new Health Secretary has inherited the controversial legislation from his predecessor, Matt Hancock, which undoes many of the reforms pushed through by the Coalition government in the last shake-up of the NHS.
i disclosed last month that Mr Hancock’s reform blueprint had run into opposition from within the health service and some of his own MPs who feared it was a distraction when hospitals are facing the challenge of dealing with a post-pandemic backlog of cases.
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