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April 2008 - Under what is known as Free Choice policy, most patients have been able to choose services from any hospital provider that is clinically appropriate and meets NHS standards and costs, including NHS foundation trusts, acute trusts and many independent sector providers and their hospitals.
When making decisions about healthcare, NHS patients are free to choose where they are treated based on what matters most to them, whether that is how far to travel, how long to wait, or how the ...
All primary care trusts in England were live with Choose and Book (although that might only be one GP within a PCT or practice), while all NHS acute trusts and a large number of independent sector hospitals used Choose and Book. At 28 October 2008, 93% of practices were providing the service, and while some PCTs are only seeing low volumes (30% ...
The NHS e-Referral Service (ERS) is an electronic referral system developed for the Health and Social Care Information Centre by IT consultancy BJSS. It is used by NHS England and it replaced the Choose and Book service on 15 June 2015. [ 1 ]
About half of the income of dentists in England comes from work sub-contracted from the NHS, [6] however not all dentists choose to do NHS work. [ 5 ] In England, a fixed NHS prescription charge is payable for up to a three-month supply of each item (£9.35 as of April 2022 [update] ), regardless of actual cost. [ 7 ]
The NHS’s flagship public consultation website has descended into chaos after people suggested ideas such as free energy drinks for all and ‘mandatory euthanasia’ to free up hospital spaces ...
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The NHS specifies what GPs, as independent contractors, are expected to do and provides funding for this work through arrangements known as the General Medical Services Contract. Today, the GMS contract is a UK-wide arrangement with minor differences negotiated by each of the four UK health departments.