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1 He reported that the UK prime minister’s “health and social care taskforce” was “drawing up proposals that would restrict NHS England’s operational independence” and curtail the freedom of its chief executive, Simon Stevens, to make key operational and strategic decisions about the health service The final outcomes of a negotiated Brexit deal, or its implications for the NHS, remain highly uncertain and worrying 3 Brexit will preoccupy large numbers of officials also counted on for the proposed government power grab 45 We are still trying to rebuild normal elective work streams after the first wave of covid-19, while preserving enough spare capacity and ability to respond quickly to a second pandemic wave 67 Shop floor clinicians and managers have their hands full Even before the pandemic Johnson had made highly contested pledges on NHS capital expenditure, new builds, and nursing numbers 12 The chancellor has since given the NHS several billion pounds more on top of the existing five year funding uplift pledged during the last parliament conditional on NHS England’s 10 year plan 131415 The Treasury and Number 10 will always be frustrated if they find that any additional funding they commit to key public services is contingent on performance improvement and efficiency gains over which they have little control
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