Number of NHS managers still growing as GP posts fall again

Latest figures show 92 GP practices closed in 2016 as GP numbers fell by 400 between October and December last year.The 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 fall in the numb