UK Government Accentuates Role Of Medtech As It Orders Review Of NHS

Health Secretary Promises To Diagnose What Ails National Provider

One week after winning the UK general election on 4 July, the Labour Party ordered a review of the National Health Service, to be published in September.

Houses of parliament, London (mauritius images GmbH/Alamy Stock Photo)
(mauritius images GmbH / Alamy St/Alamy Stock Photo)

Professor Lord Ara Darzi, a name prominent in UK healthcare circles during the previous Labour administration that ended in 2010, once again has a brief at government level.

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting commissioned the eminent surgeon and former health minister and special adviser to ex-prime minister Gordon Brown to do an independent review of the National Health Service. He was tasked with a similar job in 2008

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