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NHS England: Chairman welcomes new name

The Chairman of the NHS’s new national body has welcomed the change of the organisation’s name to NHS England.

The new body, which has until now been known as the NHS Commissioning Board, will have overall responsibility for the £95 billion NHS commissioning budget from 1 April 2013.

From this date it will be called NHS England. The main aim of NHS England is to improve the health outcomes for people in England. It will set the overall direction and priorities for the NHS as a whole.

Professor Malcolm Grant said: “The name ‘NHS England’ gives people a greater sense of what the organisation is because it is more closely aligned to the responsibilities of the new organisation, which are to achieve real improvements for patients for every pound invested by the nation in the NHS”

More detail is set out in Professor Grant’s letter to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State’s response.