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Giving patients more choice about how, when and where they receive treatment is one cornerstone of the Government's health strategy. Another is giving members of the public a bigger hand in shaping local care systems. This area of the website contains policy documents and guidance about how these goals are being achieved.
The second editions of the Choosing your hospital booklets and the National menu supplement to the local booklets are now being published on the NHS website.
FAQs on the booking component of the Choice and Booking Directed Enhanced Service are now available
David Colin Thomé, National Clinical Director for Primary Care has written to GPs reminding them that measurement of the choice and booking components of the Directed Enhanced Service (DES) for Choice and Booking begins from 1 September 2006.
These technical notes provide further detailed guidance to commissioners and providers on how the extensions to choice at referral in 2006-07 will operate in practice. They are intended as a supplement to the Choice at referral: Guidance framework for 2006-07 below.
Provides an update on the development of patient choice in the NHS since it was introduced at the start of 2006, focusing on the experiences of patients and NHS staff.
This document provides guidance for commissioners and providers on how the extensions to choice at referral in 2006-07 will operate.
Guidance and plans to give patients more choice about where and when they receive elective surgery and other NHS services.
Library of draft and final guidance relating to choice policies.
Reforms to cut waiting times and replace waiting lists by booked appointments systems. The reforms support the drive to give patients choice about when and where they are treated.
Strategy paper that sets out the Government's policy for choice .
