It’s been a whirlwind of a week to say the least, as far as the future of NHS England is concerned, and just when you think it can’t get any worse for the thousands of central staff facing an uncertain future, it does.

This morning Keir Starmer dramatically scrapped NHS England as he condemns it as “the world’s largest quango”, and “flabby, unfocused and over-cautious”.

He announced that NHS England will be abolished altogether and that health provision would be brought back under ‘democratic control’.

This comes after Wes Streeting declared that staff numbers in NHSE and DHSC would be halved, with ICBs also given the same instructions only yesterday, and the resignation of many of NHSE top team including Amanda Pritchard (CEO) and Julian Kelly (CFO).

NHS England is the central bureaucracy that controls more than £190billion a year of funding for health and has 15,000 staff.

Its functions will be taken over by the Department of Health over the next two years, with numbers cut by 9,000 - although it is yet to be seen how many of those will be deployed elsewhere.

Mr Streeting said there would be “hundreds of millions of pounds” of savings, whilst the Prime Minister said that abolishing NHS England all together will “reduce duplications”, saving money that can then be spent on frontline services.