Any NHS reform has to avoid a repeat of 2012

Abstract

The BMA and the UK government have finally agreed about something—two things, in fact: a new pay deal and the need for major reform of the NHS. After 44 days of strike action over the past two years, resident doctors (as junior doctors will now be known) have voted to accept the government’s latest pay offer, with two thirds of those who voted backing the deal (doi:10.1136/bmj.q2038).1 The BMA and the government also agreed that Ara Darzi’s report on the state of the health service in England underlines the fact that far reaching change is needed (doi:10.1136/bmj.q2001 doi:10.1136/bmj.q2032 doi:10.1136/bmj.q2009).234 “Without radical action, the NHS won’t …