Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday he would scrap a body overseeing the state-funded health system in England in a bid to save hundreds of millions of pounds and cut waiting lists and bureaucracy.

The PM says abolishing NHS England will reduce "duplication", saving money that can then be spent on frontline services.

NHS England, dubbed the "world's largest quango", will be abolished to "cut bureaucracy" and bring management of the health service "back into democratic control", Sir Keir Starmer has said. The Prime Minister said decisions about billions of pounds of taxpayer money should not be taken by an "arms-length" body,