Report author ‘shocked’ by state of ‘broken’ NHS

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Lord Darzi says he is “shocked” by the state of the NHS after releasing his independent report into the service but insists it can be turned around “with the right leadership”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The NHS is broken, it's unwell. I've been working in the NHS for nearly 30 years.
00:06After doing this review I thought it's bad, but I must say I was surprised,
00:13I was shocked, if I could use that word, in terms of the state of the NHS.
00:18The state of the health service and the state of the nation's health,
00:22these are two separate things and we need to do something about them.
00:25We obviously have to work on prevention and reducing the burden of disease
00:30and that's within the remit of our Chief Medical Officer
00:33and we have an exceptional person in that post who will be driving that.
00:37And at the same time we need to fix the NHS.
00:40We need to get the hospitals, the primary care centres, we need to get the workforce
00:45and with the right leadership, with the right strategy, which will be coming next,
00:50we've done this before, we could do it again.
00:53I expect this to be more than four years, five years, I think probably even up to eight years.
01:00It's been deteriorating in an incremental way for about a decade,
01:07a decade and a half, and it will take time to get it back.

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