To ask the Secretary of State for Health which (a) Government Ministers, (b) NHS staff, (c) civil servants and (d) others were part of the NHS Next Stages Review team.

The national health service next stage review was commissioned by Mr Brown, the then Prime Minister, and reported in 2008. The report was based on the contributions of a wide variety of organisations and individuals, primarily under the auspices of the strategic health authorities, who themselves published their own strategic vision documents, upon which the final report drew considerably. The national review team was led by Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department, with contributions from many other Ministers. The purpose of the review had been to seek contributions from people and organisations with direct, local experience of the NHS. The review was therefore a year-long process that involved thousands of clinicians, NHS staff, patients, stakeholders and members of the public. The review was widely acknowledged at the time (for example, in the introduction to the report) as having been a joint enterprise across the Department, the NHS and other interested groups (such as the medical Royal colleges) as well as representatives of patient groups.

Many of the senior civil servants in the Department, and those in leadership roles in strategic health authorities, primary care trusts and NHS provider organisations during the period of the review would have been involved, to varying degrees. It is not possible therefore to provide a definitive list of participants.

Papers relating the review are available on the national archives website at:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/www.dh.gov.uk/en/healthcare/highqualitycareforall/index.htm