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Patient choice
Policy and guidance on improving patient choice, including how, when and where patients receive treatment, and giving the public a bigger hand in shaping local care systems.
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17 November 2008
Patients' prospectus, fulfillng the Prime Minister's commitment, in January 2008, that: ‘During 2008 we will bring forward a patients’ prospectus that sets out how we will extend to all fifteen million patients with a chronic or long term condition access to a choice of ‘active patient’ or ‘care at home’ options - clinically appropriate to them and supported by the NHS.’
Publications and guidance
This is a list of the key documents that the Choice and Choose & Book teams have published in the last five years. There are links to other important documents, published by other teams, that are particularly relevant to Choice/Choose & Book.
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History of patient choice
Explore the history of patient choice in the NHS since 1948:
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