Better Health for London — legacy & commentary
In 2014, the London Health Commission — an independent inquiry established by the Mayor of London and chaired by Professor Lord Ara Darzi — published Better Health for London, the most comprehensive review of the capital's health of its era. This Review is its civic continuation, read through the lens of what delivery requires today.
An inquiry into a whole city's health
The Commission's remit spanned the entire capital's health system: prevention, primary and community care, hospital reconfiguration, mental health, and the wider determinants of health — air quality, housing and employment. Its central argument was simple and durable: London could and should be the world's healthiest major global city, and the means to get there were practical rather than mysterious.
A decade on, the recommendations remain a credible map. What has changed is the urgency of the question this Review takes up: not what should be done, but what delivering it now requires on the ground — in real estate, in clinical kit, and in the monitoring technology behind population health.
From inquiry to implementation
The Commission convenes
An independent inquiry established by the Mayor of London, chaired by the surgeon and health-policy figure Professor Lord Ara Darzi.
Better Health for London published
Ten aspirations for a healthier capital — spanning prevention, primary and community care, urgent care, and mental health.
The delivery question
The recommendations endure; the open question becomes implementation — the equipment and infrastructure each requires.
A civic continuation
The London Health Infrastructure Review reads the agenda forward, setting by setting, in equipment-literate terms.
The agenda, in brief
We treat Better Health for London as a genuine, Mayor-backed legacy of civic public-health authority — and we hold ourselves to its evidence-led register. We do not claim more than the record supports.