NHS must be weaned off ‘more, more, more’ culture, warns Alan Milburn

UK Government

By Caitlin Doherty, PA Media

Former health secretary Alan Milburn has said the NHS must be “weaned off the ‘more, more, more’ culture” after he was given a job on the board of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Mr Milburn, who ran the department under Tony Blair, warned that the service was “drinking in the last-chance saloon” as he was appointed to the senior departmental position by health secretary Wes Streeting.