The NHS has been told by the government to cut management consultancy spend and completely freeze recruitment at a national level.

Is this Steve Barclay’s first - and maybe last - move to force the NHS be more efficient?

Also this week we discuss the dire impact midwife shortages are having on the quality of maternity services and how these shortages have threatened the roll-out of an NHS England-backed model of care.

Annabelle is joined by Lawrence Dunhill and Henry Anderson.