Farewell Lord Darzi

Lord Darzi: Back in the clinical saddle yesterday?

So, farewell then Lord Darzi. You were once described as a well tethered goat. No longer. You seem to have gnawed through the ropes binding you to your ministerial desk.

Or maybe you have just seen the light that this government is falling apart and you are deserting the wreckage, like so many previous health ministers are doing. Labour health reforms seem to be going backwards now with you and Britnell leaving. Soon we’ll have a government of no talents at all.

Or maybe you want more time with your robots and other family?

You did a great review of the NHS that had the great insight that, “"At the core of my report was one simple yet radical idea: to put quality - defined as patient experience, clinical effectiveness and patient safety - at the heart of the NHS."



Then you got slammed as Clive Peedell and everyone else asked, “What else has it ever been about?” thereby exposing the idiocy that has being going on as the government hashes up health policy even further with you as the useful idiot providing camouflage for its machinations.

I think your review will come to be seen as the worst kind of old fashioned managerial butchery- like a laparotomy- and with many, many complications.

Dr Rant notes that you are not planning to stay around to sort them out, and wishes you well in your forthcoming 'advisory' role to a private sector company hoping to cherry pick some profitable nuggets out of the mess that you know intimately well (because you made it).