NHS Next Stage Review

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families – in the House of Commons at 3:31 pm on 30 June 2008.

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Photo of Alan Johnson Alan Johnson The Secretary of State for Health 3:31, 30 June 2008

I am very disappointed by that response, particularly as so many clinicians—not just the 2,000 who have been working with Lord Ara Darzi, but 60,000—have had an input into this. Those visions, for which today's final report from Ara Darzi is the enabling report, were developed locally, not dreamed up in a strategic health authority. The hon. Gentleman attacks it on the basis that there is too much top-down bureaucracy—