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‘NHS next stage review : a high quality workforce' - BMA summary

July 2008

Background
The NHS Next Stage Review, ‘Our NHS, Our Future’, was announced in July 2007 and was a wide-ranging review of the NHS in England, both at a local and national level. It was led by Lord Darzi, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health (DH). A first interim report was published in October 2007 and a second in May 2008; BMA summaries of these reports are available at the following website address:
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/DarziReviewsNational

A BMA position statement setting out our concerns over some aspects of the review process as a whole and the proposals made in the early stages of the review is available at the following website address: http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Darzipositionstatement

The report ‘A High Quality Workforce’ was published on 30 June 2008; it is available at the following website address:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_085840

The BMA summary of the intentions and recommendations of the report can be downloaded in PDF format from the link on the right..