Number of NHS managers still growing as GP posts fall again

Doctors say ministers’ ‘bureaucracy busting’ shakeup has failed to switch resources and manpower to the front lineThe number of NHS managers has grown by almost 18% in the four years since the government introduced a “bureaucracy-busting” shakeup of the health service, according to the latest official data.The rise of about 4,650 in total management posts since April 2013, when the controversial Health and Social Care Act came into force, contrasts with an alarming