Lord Darzai's review of the NHS is due out today and will be showcased by the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary.
The latter has just been talking on the Today programme where he described the report as groundbreaking and one of the most important developments in the NHS sine it was founded 60 years ago.
Heralding local healthcare and patient choice as being its buliding blocks,it was good to see that Johnson recognises that there should be no blurring of the lines of demarcation between the private and public sectors.
Whether that happens remains to be seen and writing in this morning's Telegraph on what she calls the
heavily trailed that its publication today will be almost an afterthought,Janet Daley says that
The days of central government being, for all intents and purposes, a monopoly provider of medical services are coming to an end. Not only because it has become economically unsustainable - the fruits of medical progress are coming too thick and fast to be within the reach of a service that is entirely tax-funded - but because the consequences of ideological purity have become absurd and inhumane
The paper also provides an opinion poll which shows that
Labour is no longer the party trusted to bring in the health reforms that are needed to safeguard the NHS for future generations,
Its leading article meanwhile says that
This morning's poll exposes deep anxieties about an institution that may be treasured by the public but which is also seen as wasteful, grossly inefficient and in desperate need of reform - not of more cash. Not for the first time, the politicians appear to be lagging behind public opinion.
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