Our NHS, Our Future
To all Network Co-ordinators,
The DH have asked NHS Networks to help them in disseminating information about Our NHS, Our Future (aka the NHS Next Stage Review aka the Darzi Report) to as many NHS staff and users as possible.
We have been asked to send you all this letter and report summary from Lord Darzi, which you are encouraged to forward to – or bring to the attention of – your members.
More information on the Darzi Report, and the interim report itself, can be found at www.ournhs.nhs.uk
Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish networks – obviously this doesn’t apply to you so please delete this.
Best,
Mike Simpson
Website Editor, NHS Networks
www.networks.nhs.uk
0116 222 1423
mike.simpson@networks.nhs.uk
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From: Professor Ara Darzi [mailto:news@nhs.net]
Sent: 30 October 2007 10:46
To: catherine.coe@nhs.net
Subject: Update from Minister for Health on the future direction of the NHS
Dear Colleague
As many of you will know, over the last three months I have been travelling the country to
seek the views of health and social care staff as part of the Our NHS, our future Review.
Unfortunately, I can’t get around to see all of you in person, so I thought it would be helpful to
send you a quick update on the review, and I have included below a summary of the interim
report that I published on the 4th October.
The report is based on what I have heard to date from staff, the public, patients and
stakeholder organisations.
It makes the point that the NHS has vastly improved over the past ten years, thanks to the
commitment and hard work of people like you, while acknowledging there are some
immediate issues that people have told us we need to tackle.
Most importantly, it sets out the emerging vision for the future: to develop an NHS that is
relentlessly focused on delivering the highest quality of care for all. Care that is fair,
personalised to individual needs, effective and safe.
If you’d like to read the full report, please visit www.nhs.uk/ournhs .
We are now entering the next and most important stage of the review: developing the vision
into a meaningful set of plans for the future. This is where your contribution is more important
than ever!
We need NHS and social care staff to get actively involved if we are to achieve this vision.
I stress, and my Ministerial colleagues support this, that this is not about imposing change from
the centre.For us all to take the NHS forward, and to improve our services, the NHS needs to involve its entire staff better than it has in the past.
I agree with what many of you have told me as I’ve visited NHS and social care teams across
the country: effective change should be led by clinicians and should driven by the needs of
local communities.
Thank you to those of you who have contributed your views so far. I hope many more of you
will get involved, whether through the clinical working groups and consultative events that will
be happening in your area, or by sending me your views. You can find out more about
how to have your say from our website www.nhs.uk/ournhs .
With best wishes
Professor Ara Darzi
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State