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Free choice, allowing patients to choose a hospital anywhere in England, begins in April 2008. This briefing summarises the most recent data on choice of referral.
Patient choice has been a major theme of the Labour government's public sector modernisation programme. This briefing looks at the development of reforms to give patients a choice of provider for their planned hospital care.
A qualitative study of GPs' views on their role in supporting patient choice
29 Jan 2007
Rebecca Rosen, Dominique Florin, Ruth Hutt
This qualitative study explores GPs' views on their role in supporting patient choice at the point of referral, their views on Choose and Book and equity in choice.
A study of patient choice and its effect on five specialist HIV units in London
2 Feb 2006
Ruth Thorlby
Explores the experience of patients and staff in five HIV/AIDS units to assess whether wide-ranging NHS reforms, including patient choice and payment by results, really make services more responsive.
The NHS regularly measures and monitors aspects of its performance. If it started routinely measuring patients' health-related quality-of-life outcomes too, what would be the benefits?
This practical full-colour guide and accompanying CD Rom, published in partnership with NHS Estates, shows how staff teams with no specialist knowledge can make dramatic changes to areas such as waiting rooms by making better use of existing resources.
Rosemary Gillespie, Dominique Florin , Steve Gillam
This paper argues that patients, users and carers need to be involved in defining and shaping patient-centred care if it is to transform clinical encounters on the ground.
Will Anderson, Dominique Florin, Stephen Gillam, Lesley Mountford
Public involvement is at the heart of NHS modernisation, but putting it into practice is a challenge for many practitioners. This publication looks at the potential difficulties and offers solutions.
