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For any other use of this material please write to Office of Public Sector Information, Information Policy Team, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU or e-mail: [email protected] ; 2 “4 s* . i ar ei i t ela wh « ' ‘ ' an ay winaline poeeyict? bona 8 on " A ; Gis OF a a aoe or. Be' ene Seacee tnBYe io e ay ia ' ' Introduction THE NHS NEXT STAGE REVIEW CLINICAL LEADS IN THE 10 STRATEGIC HEALTH AUTHORITIES In previous reviews of the NHS, Through this Review, the NHS has frontline staff have been on the fringes created its own ambitious visions for or bystanders. This Review has been the future of health and healthcare. different. We and our colleagues in the This marks a real change in the NHS have been at its core. There has relationship between the frontline NHS been an unprecedented opportunity for and the centre. Lord Darzi and the health and social care professionals to Department of Health have focused on review the best available evidence, to Supporting the improvements we want discuss priorities with patients and the to make. This report will enable the local public, and develop compelling shared NHS to achieve what matters to us, to visions for our local NHS. patients and to the public — improved health and high quality care for all. Tie(o n a eee Dr James Cave Professor Matthew Cooke BSc (Hons) MBBS DRCOG FRCGP PhD FCEM FRCS (Ed) NHS South Central Clinical Lead NHS West Midlands Clinical Lead General Practitioner, Berkshire West Professor of Emergency Medicine, Heart Primary Care Trust of England NHS Foundation Trusts and Warwick Medical School ‘Cte, \lexr Sir Cyril Chantler Professor Peter Kelly MA MD FRCP FRCPH FMedSci BSc PhD CStat FFPH NHS London Clinical Lead NHS North East Clinical Lead Chairman, Great Ormond Street Hospital Executive Director of Public Health for for Children NHS Trust Tees Primary Care Trusts High Quality Care For All —- NHS Next Stage Review Final Report HIS PRA. Jet, ? Professor Mayur Lakhani CBE Dr Jonathan P Sheffield FRCGP FRCP MBChB FRCPath NHS East Midlands Joint Clinical Lead NHS South West Clinical Lead Mledical Dlirector, NHS East Midlands Medical Director, University Hospitals Strategic Health Authority Bristol NHS Foundation Trust ~lwlhn— ae Dr Kathy McLean MBChB FRCP Professor Christopher L Welsh NHS East Midlands Joint Clinical Lead MA MB MChir FRCS FFOM (Hon) Medical Director, Derby Hospitals NHS NHS Yorkshire and the Humber Foundation Trust Clinical Lead Medical Director, Yorkshire and the DOsrn4 Sard Won, aHnudm bCehri efS tOrapteergaitci nHge alOtffhi ceAru,t hSohreiftfyi eld Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Mr Edward Palfrey MA MB BChir FRCS FRCS(Ed) NHS South East Coast Clinical Lead ees [eae US 1,ACA~/ Medical Director, Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Dr Robert Winter MA MD FRCP OW . NHS East of England Clinical Lead Medical Director, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Dr Steve Ryan MBChB MD NHS North West Clinical Lead Medical Director Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust Preface By the Prime Minister The National Health Service is not just experience of them. If the challenge a great institution but a unique and 10 years ago was capacity, the challenge very British expression of an ideal — today is to drive improvements in that healthcare is not a privilege to be the quality of care. We need a more purchased but a moral right secured for all. personalised NHS, responsive to each of us as individuals, focused on prevention, For 60 years it has carried the support of better equipped to keep us healthy and the British people because it speaks to our capable of giving us real control and real values of fairness and opportunity for all choices over our care and our lives. and because it is always there for us when we are most vulnerable and in need. Lord Darzi's report is a tremendous opportunity to build an NHS that That is why it is right that we should seek provides truly world class services for to renew the NHS for the 21° century. all. It requires Government to be serious To meet the rising aspirations of the about reform, committed to trusting public, the changing burdens of disease frontline staff and ready to invest in new and to ensure that the very latest, services and new ways of delivering personalised healthcare is available to alll services. It is a bold vision for an NHS of us, not just those able to pay. which is among the best healthcare systems in the world — a once ina Over the last 10 years we have generation opportunity that we owe it improved the basic standards of the to ourselves and our families to take. NHS. In 2000, the NHS Plan set out to tackle the challenges which chronic | would like to thank Lord Darzi and underinvestment had created. Since then the thousands of those who have we have invested in 80,000 more nurses been involved in the review locally and and 38,000 more doctors, including nationally for their contributions. As a 5,000 more GPs. Access to care has Government the renewal of the NHS improved dramatically, and outcomes must be one of our very highest priorities have improved as a result: 238,000 lives and we will rise to the challenge you have been saved in the last 11 years as have set us. a result of significant improvements in cancer and heart disease survival rates Ci nam Brow, in particular. This report builds on those reforms and will, | believe, have an even more Gordon Brown profound affect on NHS services and our Prime Minister High Quality Care For All — NHS Next Stage Review Final Report Foreword By the Secretary of State for Health On its 60" anniversary, the NHS is in and social care staff who have led the good health. process, with thousands more staff, patients and members of the public The NHS touches our lives at times involved across the country. of basic human need, when care and compassion are what matter most. The NHS already delivers high quality Over the past 60 years, it has been a care to patients in many respects. vital friend to millions of people, sharing The NHS Next Stage Review makes a their joy and comforting their sorrow. compelling case that it can deliver high quality care for patients in a// respects. The service continues to be available It is only because of the investment and to everyone, free at the point of need. reform of the past decade that this is One million people are seen or treated now possible. every 36 hours, and nine out of 10 people see their family doctor in any We are also launching an NHS given year. In 2008, the NHS will carry Constitution for consultation. The NHS is out a million more operations than it did as much a social movement as a health just 10 years ago. service. That is why it is so vital to secure its founding principles and set out the Over the past decade, the NHS budget rights and responsibilities of patients, has trebled. It employs a third more public and staff. people than it did — more doctors, more nurses, delivering better care for patients. Lord Darzi has led this Review We have invested in new facilities and magnificently, bringing to bear huge advanced equipment — last autumn we personal credibility and integrity. | thank announced an additional £250 million to him and the thousands of people that improve access to GP services including have worked to create this Review over 100 new practices in the most locally and nationally. It is testament to deprived areas of the country. what we can achieve when everyone In the NHS works together for the benefit The Prime Minister, Chancellor and | of patients. asked Lord Darzi to lead this Review working in partnership with patients, frontline staff and the public to develop C See, a vision of a service fit for the 21% century. He has succeeded. 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