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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 ...
April 2014 policy extended to mental health. Guidance says "This means having a right to choose which team, led by a named healthcare professional, delivers their care and treatment. [4] October 2014 the Five Year Forward View asserts "We will make good on the NHS’ longstanding promise to give patients choice over where and how they receive ...
The Directory is held centrally by the NHS Digital. It provides real-time information about services available to support patients. Pharmacy contractors are obliged to update their entries where the pharmacy’s opening hours change, either temporarily or permanently. [1] The directory is used by: NHS 111; Choose and Book; NHS Pathways; NHS Choices
By the end of October 2008, this had risen to over 10M bookings, with daily figures of over 20,000. 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 ...
A polio vaccination campaign for 14 million children has been carried out, and a program to resettle some 2 million subsistence farmers is underway. In November 2004, the government launched a five-year program to expand primary health care. In January 2005, it began distributing antiretroviral drugs, hoping to reach up to 30,000 HIV-infected ...
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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 ]
Any Qualified Provider (AQP) is a contractual system within the NHS internal market of the English National Health Service. The system was introduced under the Labour administration in 2009/10 under the name "Any Willing Provider" and was accelerated under the coalition Government which formed in 2010. In 2011 the name of the system was changed ...