EDITORIAL
Did Darzi deliver or did he dither?
Emergency Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
Correspondence to:
Professor G Hughes, Emergency Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide 5000, Australia; cchdhb@yahoo.com
Accepted 15 July 2008
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As the sexagenarian NHS, on creaking ageing joints, soldiers on, Lord Darzi delivered his long awaited review, High quality care for all: NHS Next Stage Review final report at the end of June. As with all such stage-managed, high profile events, some content was released before the official launch date, as hors d’oeuvres to whet our appetites; consequently the official launch of the full report did not deliver too many major surprises. Without going into specific details (the College of Emergency Medicine’s response to the review can be seen on its website), what can be said about its themes and philosophy?
The review is fairly high level and does not drill down into micro management operational detail. It aims to "secure our NHS today for future generations"? (Be warned—anyone who reads it will find it littered with this sort of weasel motherhood statement. Another word of warning—it is liberally laced
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