Analysis Darzi lays bare a dire situation but offers road to recovery
The Guardian|September 12, 2024
Even factoring in the manifestations many over recent years of the NHS's deep crisis, some of Ara Darzi's findings in his verdict on the state of the service are arresting.
Denis Campbell
Analysis Darzi lays bare a dire situation but offers road to recovery

A&E is in such "an awful state" that thousands of people die every year because they aren't seen there fast enough.

"Starving" the service of vital capital funding has left "crumbling buildings, mental health patients being accommodated in Victoriaera cells infested with vermin with 17 men sharing two showers, and parts of the NHS operating in decrepit Portacabins". There was "no progress whatsoever made ... between 2013 and 2021" on efforts to improve early diagnosis of cancer, despite many lives depending on that.

But Lord Darzi's report is more than just another litany of NHS gloom. Like any good doctor, he has not just diagnosed what ails the patient but also set out his treatment plan to restore good health. Despite concluding that the NHS "is in critical condition", he added, reassuringly, "its vital signs are strong".

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