Conservative health spokesman Andrew Lansley has promised that a Tory government would cut spending on NHS admin by a third.
In his speech to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester today, he listed the increase in NHS managers among the running costs of primary care trusts that were ripe for streamlining.
He also highlighted the running costs of strategic health authorities and the Department of Health as the top targets for cuts. The cost of NHS quangos would also be cut by a third, he said.
The Tories have calculated that the annual cost of “NHS bureaucracy” is £4.38bn.
They say this is made up of £2.14bn for PCT running costs, £1.94bn for the cost of quangos, £200m for DH running costs, and £100m for SHA running costs.
Mr Lansley said that by the end of its fourth year in power the Conservative government would have cut spending on bureaucracy by a third to £3bn a year.
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