Although some of the key planks of the NHS reform programme, such as Payment by Results (PbR) and patient choice, began to take shape from 2003, it is only recently that the Department of Health has begun to publish guidance, aimed at people working within the NHS, that attempts to ...
In the past few years, rapid and significant changes have taken place in the social, political and policy environment in which health professionals and patients interact. This paper reports on the Patient Involvement Project, a King's Fund study that assessed changing relationships between health professionals and patients/clients in a changing ...
This is a report on the process evaluation undertaken as part of the King's Fund Promoting Patient Choice initiative. The report outlines: the background to the project; the purpose and method of the evaluation; findings from the seven sites (information about the application stage, the development process and the evaluation ...
This book reviews the quality of treatment outcomes information patients received in five pilot projects around the country. The projects were carried out by: Health Matters, Milton Keynes; Trent Healthline, Nottingham; Critical Appraisals Skills Programme (CASP), Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford; NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) York, ...
This report, commissioned by Anglia and Oxford RHA aims to clarify the concept of evidence-based patient choice (EBPC), provide guidance and make recommendations for the development and funding of future projects in EBPC, and describe those projects under way within Anglia and Oxford RHA which are centred around EBPC. It ...
This is the introductory work in the 'Promoting Patient Choice' series. It provides a guide to understanding individual user involvement as well as the wider issue of public involvement in health care decision making. It defines the terms and concepts used and describes the debates and strategies concerned with increasing ...
This book provides an introduction to the concept of evidence-based health care and considers how consumer health information providers might identify and obtain good quality research-based information about health care effectiveness. It explains why there is so much interest in providing people with information about health care effectiveness and involving ...
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 ...
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 ...
This publication lays out the questions the government must answer if it wants to place patient choice at the heart of a taxpayer-funded health care system, including how extra costs will be met, whether patients are willing and able to exercise choice in their own best interests, and what kinds ...