Editorial: A promising prescription - The Guardian 1st July 2008

At first blush the insistence of the surgeon turned minister, Professor Lord Ara Darzi, that the NHS should have "quality of care at its heart" seems a statement of the blindingly obvious. After all, every decent medic aims at caring well. But the emphasis on quality running through the report Lord Darzi published yesterday was in fact distinctive and important. More important, indeed, than the draft NHS constitution, also published yesterday, which - despite the grand title - is principally a tidying up exercise. For, during a turbulent decade in the service, the overriding concern in Whitehall has been quantity instead.

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