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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

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 ...
Free choice at the point of referral.

O Criador:

King's Fund, Thorlby, Ruth, and Gregory, Sarah

Publication date:

2008

Abstract:

'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 ...