Theresa May demands NHS bosses slash red tape after getting £20billion bonanza

THERESA MAY vowed to rip up David Cameron’s health reforms yesterday as she demanded the NHS slash red-tape.

Unveiling plans for her £20 billion funding package, she stressed the NHS was mired in too much bureaucracy that acted as a “barrier to progress”.

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Explaining how the Government had delivered its side of the bargain, the PM said the NHS now had to deliver a 10-year plan to ensure the money is not wasted.

And she criticised the 200-strong NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups, which were only set up to buy-in care for patients by former Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley in 2012.

The PM said: “It is a problem that a typical NHS Clinical Commissioning Group negotiates and monitors over 200 different legal contracts with other, different parts of the NHS.

"It is too bureaucratic, inhibits joined up care, and takes money and people away from the front line.”

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She said legislation making it harder for officials to work together – and “resulting in overly bureaucratic processes” – could be changed.

“And where is it making it harder to hold NHS leaders accountable for delivering better outcomes for people – we should be be prepared to change it,” she said.

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