‘World’s biggest quango’: The history of NHS England and what its abolition may look like

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By Daniel Pye

Doctors.net.uk looks back at why the national commissioning body was proposed in the first place and what the future of the NHS in England may be once it returns to full ministerial control.

The board that would become NHS England was first announced in 2010 under former Conservative health secretary Andrew Lansley. Less than 2 decades later, the project will come to an end.