Health Secretary Steve Barclay axes one-in-six civil service health jobs 'to free up money for frontline NHS services'

Health Secretary Steve Barclay axes one-in-six civil service health jobs 'to free up money for frontline NHS services' Steve Barclay has got rid of hundreds of civil servants to free up cash for the NHS, insiders claimed today.

The Department of Health and Social Care's workforce is now a sixth smaller than it was nine months ago, with just 3,316 mandarins now employed.

Sources close to the Health Secretary said he has 'always been interested in cutting bureaucracy'. The Daily Mail