But it comes less than a month after two influential House of Commons committees made unusual criticisms of her suitability to lead the NHS through a period of what Streeting and Keir Starmer have said will be the biggest overhaul since the service’s creation in 1948.
Since becoming the health secretary in July, Streeting has sought to assert more control over NHS England to help him drive through his promised “three big shifts” in how the service operates.
Amanda Pritchard is standing down as chief executive of NHS England, in a development that will shock the health service.
In what may be seen as a riposte to the two parliamentary committees, Pritchard stressed the NHS’s record of delivering changes that had improved patient care since she took over in 2021.
Immediately after the two committees’ criticisms of Pritchard, the Department of Health and Social Care maintained that Streeting still had full confidence in her.
