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  • Choice and equity : PCT survey.

    O Criador:
    King's Fund, Turner, Paul, and Thorlby, Ruth
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    This report reveals that two-thirds of the PCTs responding to the survey had not yet carried out any assessment to identify patients who might need support in making choices about which hospital to go to. A similar proportion had not commissioned any new services to support the introduction of patient ...

  • Where the patient was king? : a study of patient choice and its effect on five specialist HIV units in London.

    O Criador:
    The King's Fund and Thorlby, Ruth
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    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 ...

  • Operating framework 2007/8.

    O Criador:
    King's Fund and Thorlby, Ruth
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    In December 2006, the Department of Health issued its second 'operating framework', The NHS in England: The operating framework for 2007/08, which provides a set of rules and guidance for NHS organisations in England for the year ahead. Aimed primarily at managers and clinical staff, the operating framework for 2007/8 ...

  • Patient choice.

    O Criador:
    King's Fund, Thorlby, Ruth, and Robertson, Ruth
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    Attempts to give more choice to users of public sector services has been a major theme of the Labour government's public sector modernisation programme. Policies have been developed in health care, education and social housing that aim to give users a greater choice of publicly or privately owned providers, and ...

  • Free choice at the point of referral.

    O Criador:
    King's Fund, Thorlby, Ruth, and Gregory, Sarah
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    'Free choice' - allowing patients being referred for non-urgent treatment to choose a hospital anywhere in England - begins in the NHS in England in April 2008. It is another milestone in a policy that aims, among other things, to use consumer pressure to improve the quality of hospital services ...