Ara Darzi

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Person.png Ara Darzi  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(surgeon, academic, politician)
Lord Darzi.jpg
Born7 May 1960
Baghdad, Iraq

Employment.png Member of the House of Lords Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
19 July 2007 - Present

Ara Warkes Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, is an Armenian-British surgeon, academic, and politician.

Background

Ara 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

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, 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 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.


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/201126 January 201130 January 2011World Economic Forum
Switzerland
2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality".
WEF/Annual Meeting/201225 January 201229 January 2012Switzerland2113 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/201422 January 201425 January 2014World Economic Forum
Switzerland
2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
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References

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