Choice for patients
NHS Constitution: a consultation on new patient rights. This consultation will run from 10 November 2009 to 5 February 2010
SHA conferences on choice and health inequality and on choice in mental health.
NHS Choices website
See also our page on privatisation and our history of NHS Reform
- 17 Million Reasons - partnership on long-term conditions
- Advertising watchdog bans SHA from running 'misleading' choice ad
- Agitators will inherit the earth Roy Hattersley November 17, 2003 The Guardian
- Audit Commission report: Choice in Public Services September 2004
- Best Treatments - BMJ
- Bevan Lecture 2004 Jane Hutt
- Blind Faith And Choice Rhiannon Tudor Edwards 2005
- Bring flawed selection system to book Tribune 2006
- Building on the best: Choice, responsiveness and equity in the NHS - response document 9/12/2003
- Can choice for all improve health for all? Dr Marianna Fotaki and others 2006
- Choice Tom Baldwin and Alice Miles The Times 7/8/02
- Choice at the point of referral: early results of a patient survey 2009
- Choice, excellence and equality - Tony Blair June 2004
- Choices in Mental Health
- Choose and Book
- Choice matters: Increasing choice improves patients’ experiences 2006
- Choice: Will More Choice Improve Outcomes in Education and Health Care? The Evidence from Economic Research 2005
- Citizens Voices or Consumer Choices - Nye Bevan Lecture 2004
- Conservative Vision for Health
- Consumerism and public services - New Labour's marketplace democracy
- Creating a patient-led NHS: 'work in progress'. Pat Hewitt November 2005
- A deeper democracy: Challenging market fundamentalism Angela Eagle MP
- Designing the 'new' NHS - Ideas to make a supplier market in health care work - June 2006
- Disease Mongering
- Discrete choice experiments in health care BMJ 2004
- Does more choice equal more risk? Jennifer Dixon 2006
- Dr Foster
- Early lessons from payment by results Audit Commision October 2005
- Equitable Choices for Health IPPR 205
- Equity Choice Capacity and Culture John Reid New Health Network Conference 7 November 2003
- Fair for All Personal to You - Patient Choice Consultation 2003
- Future of Health and Public Service Regulation Andrew Lansley
- Future Services Network
- HAVE WE OLD 'UNS ANY REAL CHOICE? - Sir Richard Knowles 2005
- Health Consumer Powerhouse
- Health Impact Assessment of the Patient Choice Agenda Lyn Winters 2006
- Health Service Journal site on Patient Choice
- Healthspace
- Heart surgery in Great Britain - mortality rates of various surgeons
- How Should we Deal with Hospital Failure? - Facing the challenges of the new NHS market Kings Fund December 2005
- I Want Great Care - site to rate Doctors
- IWantGreatCare - a dangerous currency for quality? Health Policy Today, 14 July 2008
- Improving Services, Improving Lives: Evidence and Key Themes Social Exclusion Unit
- John Spiers: Tories must offer power to the patient 2003
- Labour must seize the policies of diversity and choice Alan Milburn 2002
- London Patient Choice Programme
- London Patient Choice Project Evaluation
- Making it Personal
- Medicines and Choice Which 2005
- Meeting the Challenges of the New NHS market - Kings Fund 2005
- Milburn moots personal NHS budgets
- National Patient Choice Survey Nov 2006
- Netherlands healthchoice (in Dutch)
- New Business Structures in Health and Social Care - Moore Adamson Craig Partnership 2006
- The NHS Improvement Plan : Putting people at the heart of public services June 2004
- Office of Public Services Reform (archived)
- Patient Choice at the Point of GP Referral - National Audit Office 2005
- Patient choice is a poor substitute for real patient involvement Feb 2010
- Patient's Choice - Steve Iliffe
- Patient Opinion
- Personalisation Network
- Picker Institute
- Practice based commissioning
- Private Complaints and Public Health - Richard Titmuss
- Public Services - Tony Blair speech 29/1/04
- Public Views on Choices in Health and Health Care: A qualitative study Kings Fund 2005
- Registering Choice: How primary care should change to meet patient needs Paul Corrigan 2006
- Reconfiguration Birth Pains Tribune 2007
- Quality for All - Alex Scott-Samuel
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health More choice for better mental health
- SHA Conference - Patients Consumers Citizens 2003
- SHA Conference - Whose choice? What choice? - Mental health 2003
- Social Enterprise and Community-based Care - Is there a future for mutually-owned organisations in community and primary care? Kings Fund 2006
- Social Enterprise Coalition
- Supporting Patient Choice: Learning from Stakeholders NHS North West 2007
- The sick can't shop around Roy Hattersley November 14, 2003 The Guardian
- Trip to France
- Vaccine required to stop this madness
- What do we know about patient choice? Ian Greener 2006
- What is the Real Cost of More Patient Choice? Kings Fund 2003
- What patients really think of the NHS New Health Network 2002
- Where the patient was King HIV services in London
- Who Decides Who Decides, by John Spiers
- Your Health Your Care Your Say
Cartoon by Peter Rigg