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  • Choice and equity : PCT survey.

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    Creador:
    Thorlby, Ruth, King's Fund, and Turner, Paul
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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 ...

  • Should primary care trusts be made more locally accountable? : a King's Fund discussion paper.

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    Creador:
    Lewis, Richard, Dixon, Jennifer, Thorlby, Ruth, and King's Fund
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    Local accountability has been a significant policy issue within the NHS generally. However, primary care trusts are in the main accountable to the centre and there have been calls to review this. This paper discusses a range of options for reforming the relationships between PCTs and their public. It explores ...

  • Where the patient was king?

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    Creador:
    Thorlby, Ruth and The King's Fund
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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 ...

  • Health and ten years of Labour government : achievements and challenges.

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    Creador:
    Maybin, Jo, Thorlby, Ruth, and King's Fund
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    This briefing provides an analysis of the NHS during the last ten years of Labour Government.

  • Conservative party health policy.

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    Creador:
    Thorlby, Ruth and King's Fund
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    This briefing analyses and comments on the key proposals contained in the policy document NHS Autonomy and Accountability, which was released by the Conservative party in June 2007. The document contains the most detailed policy proposals on the NHS released by the main opposition party since the election of David ...

  • Practice-based commissioning.

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    Creador:
    Curry, Natasha, Thorlby, Ruth, and King's Fund
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    Practice-based commissioning (PBC) is a policy intended to give more decision-making power over NHS resources to general practitioners (GPs), and allow them to design and deliver completely new services or commission others to do so. It has a number of underlying policy objectives including delivering more cost effective and convenient ...

  • Operating framework 2007/8.

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    Creador:
    Thorlby, Ruth and King's Fund
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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 ...

  • NHS finances 2006/7 : from deficit to a sustainable surplus?

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    Creador:
    Maybin, Jo, Thorlby, Ruth, and King's Fund
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    The NHS has moved from an overall net deficit to a net surplus within a year, according to the figures released by the government in June 2007 (Department of Health 2007), reversing a three year trend towards increasingly large gross deficits. The government argues that these latest figures show that ...

  • Patient choice.

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    Creador:
    Thorlby, Ruth, King's Fund, 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 ...

  • Operating framework 2008/9.

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    Creador:
    Thorlby, Ruth and King's Fund
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    Abstract:
    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 ...