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Policy and guidance on improving patient choice including how, when and where they receive treatment and giving the public a bigger hand in shaping local care systems.
Published: 20 December 2007
Helping commissioners improve and personalise services and support for people with long term conditions.
Published: 16 November 2007
A letter advising PCTs of options for updating and printing Patient Choice booklets.
Published: 26 June 2007
An update on the implementation of patient choice in the NHS since it was introduced at the start of 2006, focusing on the experiences of patients and NHS staff.
Best practice guidance for commissioners and providers on how the roll-out of free choice in elective care in 2007/8 will operate.
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
Letter from David Colin Thomé to GPs reminding them that measurement of the choice and booking components of the Directed Enhanced Services for Choice and Booking begins on 1 September 2006.
Further detailed guidance for commissioners and providers on how the extensions to choice at referral in 2006-07 will operate in practice.
An update on the development of patient choice in the NHS, focusing on the experiences of patients and NHS staff.
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. Supporting the drive to give patients choice about when and where they are treated.
Strategy paper that sets out the Government's policy for choice .
