Reform alone won’t fix the health service – more cash is needed. But at least this government recognises the scale of the task
The NHS is in serious trouble. This is the considered diagnosis of Lord Darzi’s report on the NHS.
Undertaken over just nine weeks, it is an astonishing piece of work and its commissioning underscores the new government’s commitment to action on the NHS right from the beginning. It sets out in detail the steady decline in the health service over the past 15 years and thoroughly rejects the idea that this is purely a pandemic hangover.
