I love the fact that Lord Darzi begins his interim report on the NHS with words which will immediately raise a smile among generations of Star Trek (all flavours) viewers: ‘I’m a doctor, not a politician…’ 🙂
And lest it’s missed… one of Darzi’s recommendations is ‘that the NHS could benefit from greater distance from the day to day thrust of the political process.’ With that in mind, he has instructed NHS chief executive to look into an NHS Constitution. Taking the NHS out of politics – or indeed, taking politics out of the NHS? A huge step… but they did it, and quite successfully too (as all have now admitted), with the Bank of England.