[Comment] The abolition of NHS England: radical or reckless?

On March 13, 2025, the UK Government announced that it was disbanding NHS England, the arm's length government body overseeing health-care delivery in England. This was a shock to many people. But there is public support for change in the NHS. Using a sample of 2088 people in the UK, a UCL Policy Labs and More in Common polling report from March, 2025, indicated 72% of people think things in the UK are getting worse and 61% think the NHS needs radical change.1 However, the British public generally do not want the careless and irresponsible actions of US President Donald Trump's executive orders, leading the report to conclude the “British people are looking for change, but not chaos, radicalism, but not recklessness”.