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Impact assessment

Health Bill: abolishing NHS England - equality impact assessment

Outlines the approach to assessing equality impacts of the proposal to abolish NHS England as part of the Health Bill.

Applies to England

Documents

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The Health Bill is supporting 2 overarching aims:

  • improve patient safety and experience through a new single patient record (SPR), enabling joined-up, proactive care and empowering patients
  • put power and resources in the hands of NHS organisations providing direct patient care by abolishing NHS England and stripping back national bureaucracy

See the Health Bill collection page for the bill’s other supporting documents:

  • impact assessments
  • other equality impact assessments
  • fact sheets

Updates to this page

Published 14 May 2026
Last updated 9 September 2026 Show all updates
  1. Updated to include the description and assessment of a proposed Secretary of State power to allow integrated care boards to make alternative pharmaceutical arrangements in the event of a failure of existing provision.

  2. First published.

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Update history

2026-09-09 16:45
Updated to include the description and assessment of a proposed Secretary of State power to allow integrated care boards to make alternative pharmaceutical arrangements in the event of a failure of existing provision.

2026-05-14 16:10
First published.