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New beginnings

02 January 2025
Volume 30 · Issue 1

Abstract

‘The Darzi report makes depressing reading with its enumeration of the numerous health challenges facing the English population across all age ranges, the shortfalls in health provision including primary and community care, variable care quality, declining patient satisfaction and a large proportion of money flowing to hospitals rather than to primary care.’

The third report by Ara Darzi (Department of Health and Social Care, 2024) has been published. The first Darzi review was commissioned by Alan Milburn in 2001 when the independent MP Dr Richard Taylor, a retired Kidderminster consultant, was elected to represent the Wyre Forest constituency after plans were put in place to downgrade the Kidderminster Hospital. Although Kidderminster Hospital in Worcestershire lost some services, investment in increased elective surgery as well as other local services was secured (House of Commons, 2001).

The second report High Quality Care for All (Department of Health, 2008), set out the ambitions for the NHS building on the previous 60 years and progressing from a focus on the quantity of care to a focus on the quality of care, offering patient choice based on sufficient information, personalising services and tackling unwarranted local variations in care quality.

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