Lord Darzi
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Ara Warkes Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, is an Armenian-British surgeon, academic, and politician.
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Background
Professor Lord Darzi is an academic surgeon and holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London, specialising in the field of minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery, having pioneered many new techniques and technologies. He is co-director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation and the NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre at Imperial College London.
Politician
Lord Darzi was a junior Health Minister in Gordon Brown's Labour Government and published two NHS Strategies (a 2007 interim and a 2008 final report).
Until resigning the whip in July 2019, Lord Darzi sat as a Labour member of the House of Lords, but now sits as an independent peer because of his perception that Jeremy Corbyn failed to control antisemitism within Labour.[1]
Another NHS report
In July 2024 Labour's new Health Secretary Wes Streeting appointed Lord Darzi to lead an independent investigation into the performance of the NHS.[2]
Darzi's 2024 report was published on 11 September 2024 and warned that despite "more resources than ever before", with funding at £165 billion a year, the NHS was in a "critical condition", with waiting lists increasing, cancer performance poor, and an increased number of staff wasting much of their time because of severe shortages of beds and diagnostics.[3] He found an urgent need to improve productivity and move more care out of hospitals.[4]
Privatisation not mentioned
On 12 September 2024, Crispin Flintoff commented:
- This morning, an 'independent investigation' into the NHS was published by the government.
- Written, fact-checked and proof-read in only nine weeks, it tells us the NHS is in a terrible state.
- The report also suggests that the NHS cannot be fixed in one parliamentary term but that radical reform is needed.
- What is interesting about the 159-page report is that not one reference to crippling PFI debt is made. £300bn is quite a sum. Surely that is worth mentioning?
- What else isn't mentioned are the words private healthcare companies. Not once.
- Join us on Sunday morning 15 September 2024's The Crispin Flintoff Show (10:30am-12:30pm), to hear more detail on the report and Starmer and Streeting's response to it. I have invited Nicholas Csergo (SHA) and Dr Bob Gill to speak.
References
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