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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 ...
Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) are primary care services provided by outside contractors (like US health companies). A study, published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2015 found that 347 of the 8,300 general practices in England were run by under 'alternative provider medical service' contracts. The study found ...
The Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN), formerly known as the NHS Partners Network, is a representative body for independent sector healthcare providers in the United Kingdom. The body was formed in 2005 to provide a voice for private health companies, and was initially made up of organisations involved in the government's ...
The proposals in the act were not discussed during the 2010 United Kingdom general election campaign and were not contained in the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement of 20 May 2010, [1] which declared an intention to "stop the top-down reorganisations of the NHS that have got in the way of patient care". [7]
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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 ]
In 2022, Sharecare announced one of its brands had become "available as a free in-home personal care benefit to more than 1.5 million Medicare Advantage members." The number reached 2 million in 2023.