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Where the patient was king? : a study of patient choice and its effect on five specialist HIV units in London.

Author:

The King's Fund and Thorlby, Ruth

Publication date:

2006

Abstract:

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 ...
The future of primary care : meeting the challenges of the new NHS market.

Author:

Dixon, Jennifer, Lewis, Richard, and The King's Fund

Publication date:

2005

Abstract:

Primary care has been the subject of a quiet revolution in recent years, with the ending of the monopoly of provision by independently contracted GPs and the introduction of a range of new targets and new forms of first contact care. Now it is poised for further radical change with ...
Our health, our care, our say : a new direction for community services.

Author:

The King's Fund

Publication date:

2006

Abstract:

In January 2006 the Department of Health published Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services. It is the government's seventh White Paper on health since coming to office in 1997 and, after several years of reform aimed at the acute hospital sector, it represents what ...
The NHS in England : the operating framework for 2006/7.

Author:

The King's Fund

Publication date:

2006

Abstract:

The 2006/7 Operating Framework, published at the end of January 2006, sets out the Department of Health's priorities for the NHS in England over the next financial year, a year which the document expects to be 'challenging'. It is aimed primarily at NHS managers and their counterparts in local government. ...