Reviews, drawing in expertise from across the public and private sector, will be launched into four key areas, including bringing healthcare out of hospitals.

As healthcare has become increasingly centred around hospitals, community, primary care, mental health, social care and local services have been left working in silos — driving inefficiency and making the system harder for patients to navigate. The healthcare review will highlight these challenges and establish better how the government can deliver the shift of healthcare back to communities in a sustainable way across the NHS.

Chief secretary to the Treasury, James Murray, said: ‘These reviews will scrutinise government programmes to ensure they improve people's lives while rooting out wasteful spend from the public sector.

‘We have a duty to taxpayers to make sure every pound of their money works as hard in government as the people who earn it.'

Murray will lead the reviews, working with relevant secretaries of state and ministers as they identify wasteful spending in their departments and make recommendations to improve value for money in these areas. These recommendations will inform the next Spending Review, which will take place in 2027.