Darzi focused on long-term conditions

This patient-led event responded to the need for patients’ voices to be heard alongside those of his “clinical champions” and was intended to feed into the NHS Next Stage Review final report.

The event was hosted by Asthma UK and attended by representatives from Arthritis Care, the British Heart Foundation, Diabetes UK, the Long Term Conditions Alliance, Parkinson’s Disease Society and the Stroke Association.

At the event Lord Darzi wanted to know if the examples of best-practice care in the longterm conditions pathway were appropriate and sought to understand “what it means to live with a long-term condition”. He told patients: “When we know what you need we can work at a national level and with the SHAs to make that happen.”