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Schöpfer:: The King's Fund and Thorlby, Ruth
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: Patient choice has been central to the government's recent NHS reforms, along with a new payment system that rewards hospitals that are attractive to patients. But will these reforms make services more responsive? In the treatment of HIV and AIDS, patients have always had a choice of which hospital to ...

Schöpfer:: The King's Fund, Curry, Natasha, Rosen, Rebecca, and Florin, Dominique
Publication date:: 2005
Abstract:: This is a piece of independent research conducted by the authors at the King's Fund based on a Pfizer initiative. and Extending patient choice is central to the government's reform of the NHS. Patients will be offered a choice of hospitals for planned operations from December 2005 and will soon be offered choice in other areas of health care. This paper presents the key findings from ten focus groups held to ...

Schöpfer:: The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: In January 2006 the Department of Health published Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services. It is the government's seventh White Paper on health since coming to office in 1997 and, after several years of reform aimed at the acute hospital sector, it represents what ...

Schöpfer:: The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: The 2006/7 Operating Framework, published at the end of January 2006, sets out the Department of Health's priorities for the NHS in England over the next financial year, a year which the document expects to be 'challenging'. It is aimed primarily at NHS managers and their counterparts in local government. ...

Schöpfer:: The King's Fund, Dixon, Anna, and Robertson, Ruth
Publication date:: 2009
Abstract:: For the past three years patients referred by their GP for a specialist outpatient consultation have had a choice over where to be treated. As part of a larger research project, a survey was sent to patients in four case study areas of England to ask them about their experience ...

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