### [2025-03-13](/feed/2025/03/13/index.md)

##### UK Prime Minister
# UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces that NHS England will be abolished in a drive to reduce bureaucracy and bring National Health Service management back under "democratic control". The move is expected to result in around 6,500 job losses. 




### Sources:

1. [BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx29lrl826rt)

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