New joint executive team to be set up at DHSC and NHS England

Source: DHSC / NHS England, 18 September 2025

A single joint executive team will be established at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England as part of the transition to one organisation.

It will provide unified leadership across both organisations, bringing policy and delivery together. The team will manage directors from related work areas from 3 November 2025 and will begin to combine resources.

In March, the Prime Minister announced NHS England would be brought back into DHSC to end the duplication resulting from 2 organisations doing the same job in a system currently holding staff back from delivering for patients. By stripping back layers of red tape and bureaucracy, more resources will be put back into the frontline rather than being spent on unnecessary admin.

Read more, including about the new teams, here.