Darzi Report 2024

Question 1

What, aside from what is going on within the NHS, is affecting the NHS’ performance?

Answer 1

• The overall health of the poulation has decreased.
• Life expectancy plateaued in the 2010s and decreased during COVID. It has begun to rise again, however the absolute and relative proportion of our lives spent in ill-health has increased.
• Poor quality housing, low income, insecure employment etc increasing.
• Surge in mental health services demand and chronic illness.
  -Fewer immunisations for children.
• Decreased participation in key screening programmes e.g breast scans.
• The public health grant has been slashed by more than 25% in real terms since 2015.
• Public Health England dissolved in 2021, split into two.

Question 2

As of April 2024, how many people were waiting for NHS mental health services?

Answer 2

By April 2024, about 1 million people were waiting for mental health services.

Question 3

As of June 2024, how many people were waiting for community services?

Answer 3

As of June 2024, more than 1 million people were waiting for community services, including more than 50,000 people who had been waiting for over a year, 80% of whom are children and young people.

Question 4

How many referrals to mental health services resulted in a wait of over a eyar before first contact?

Answer 4

345,000

Question 5

How many preventable deaths are A&E waiting times causing per year?

Answer 5

~14,000 according to the royal college of emergency medicine.

Question 6

How much did the Diabetes Prevention Programme decrease type 2 diabetes risk by?

Answer 6

40 %, it identifies people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes and refers them onto a nine-month, evidence-based lifestyle change programme.

Question 7

How has the percentage of the budget spent on hospitals changed?

Answer 7

Between 2006 and 2022, the share of the NHS budget spent on hospitals increased from 47% to 58%.