Lord Darzi launches the Next Stage Review final report

High Quality Care For All sets a new foundation for a health service that empowers staff and gives patients choice. It ensures that health care will be personalised and fair, include the most effective treatments within a safe system, and help patients to stay healthy.

The report will give patients more say through initiatives such as care plans for those with long term conditions, a guarantee that the most effective drugs will be available to all, and provide the right to choose care providers, including GPs. Personal budgets will be piloted for 5000 patients with complex conditions.

People will be helped to stay healthy through the investment of record amounts in wellbeing and prevention services. The new “Reduce Your Risk” campaign to raise awareness of free vascular checks for 40-74 year-olds.

Front line staff will be enabled to initiate and lead change that improves quality of care for patients. There will be no new targets from the centre, with service providers accountable to patients and the public. There will be a clinical voice at every level of the service, and investment in new programmes of clinical leadership.

A new workforce strategy will fully support NHS staff. The new independent body NHS Medical Education England will scrutinise workforce planning proposals for doctors and dentists. The investment in foundation periods for nurses will triple and a new tariff-based system for education funding will see funding follow the student, improving transparency and rewarding quality.