MORE experts have rubbished the government’s top-down NHS reforms as a report warned on Wednesday that a “lack of staff voice” was a key reason behind worsening patient treatment.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting was urged to axe “bullying” plans for NHS trust league tables and stop threatening to sack “poorly performing” managers, as researchers revealed staff turnover was costing thousands of patient lives a year.

Now a new report has warned that the NHS is “struggling to get firing on all cylinders” and that the “return on public investment has weakened since the pandemic.”