BMJ  2007;335:108-109 (21 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.39276.699954.47

Editorials

Health for London: showing England the way?

Plans to focus hospital services and build polyclinics will have to overcome inertia and rivalries

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Last week saw the launch of Healthcare for London: A Framework for Action, the findings of a review led by Sir Ara Darzi, chair of surgery at Imperial College.¹ The review was commissioned by NHS London in 2006, but its contents have assumed a greater significance with the recent appointment of Sir Ara as a junior minister, charged with a wider review of the health service throughout England.² The terms of reference for that review make clear the government's determination "to ensure that the future of the NHS is clinically led" and that vision is pre-eminent in his London report.

The review has been based largely on the views of clinicians, concentrated into six working groups of "clinical innovators" drawn from a range of organisations, including the King's Fund, to look at clinical pathways. They looked at maternity and newborn care, services for staying healthy, acute care, planned care, . . . [Full text of this article]

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