Health Service Journal
Choice
Stories with this category.
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Why the friends and family test won't work
7-Dec-2012
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Trusts lose ground in online marketing race
15 November 2012
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A fair deal for older people
25 October 2012
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Readers' letters – 25 October 2012
25 October 2012
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How competition can help community services
18 October 2012
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Is choice a blight or a boon for patient care?
18 October 2012
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Face the facts on closures
11 October 2012
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Irresponsible, or a breath of fresh air?
11 October 2012
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The information revolution
4 October 2012
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GPs urged to improve patient choice
4-Sep-2012
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Avoid budgetary stretch marks
26 July 2012
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How patients could benefit from top-up payments
12 July 2012
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Stability trumps choice in the birth of commissioning support
11-Jul-2012
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How voluntary organisations can demonstrate their value
28-Jun-2012
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Health insurer Benenden makes bid for NHS co-payment role
21-Jun-2012
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'The secrecy of information in the NHS is absurd'
21-Jun-2012
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Milburn: 'tragedy' reform policies making enemy of private sector
20-Jun-2012
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Legal right to choice would give providers 'confidence', says Cabinet Office
13-Jun-2012
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Are we wasting money on care that patients don’t want?
7-Jun-2012
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Providers sceptical on extending mental health choice
30-May-2012
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Expand independent sector provision, says 'most powerful' hospital chief
23-May-2012
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David Worskett: implementing reforms requires collaborative open minds
10-May-2012
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How to identify - and manage - conflicts of interest
3 May 2012
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Nigel Edwards: how Lansley's big vision got shredded
26-Apr-2012
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Guidance on producing an any qualified provider implementation pack
29 March 2012
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Are GPs the right people for the job?
8-Mar-2012
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'Patient choice should not force commissioners away from competition'
1-Mar-2012
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How real-time therapies can deliver better mental healthcare
23 February 2012
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More needs to be done to improve NHS health check scheme
21-Feb-2012
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Commuter influx sees NHS Westminster selected to pilot GP choice scheme
17-Feb-2012
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David Kerr: the true value of reform must be defined by patient outcomes
9-Feb-2012
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How to achieve the cultural change required to drive NHS innovation
19 January 2012
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Why AQP can drive real benefits in primary and secondary care
6-Jan-2012
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Cambs struggling on Choose and Book
14-Dec-2011
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Michael White: freedom to choose doesn't stop bad decisions
1-Dec-2011
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'This is the kind of disruptive innovation the NHS needs'
25-Nov-2011
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NHS Somerset names AQP services
21-Nov-2011
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Nottingham City endorses AQP priorities
21-Nov-2011
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Wiltshire's innovative outcomes based commissioning restricts patient choice
17-Nov-2011
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Making the case for a one-year limit on waiting times
17-Nov-2011
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'The success of integrated care depends upon our commitment to innovation'
24-Oct-2011
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Audits of clinical outcomes to cover new areas
24-Oct-2011
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Why exceeding patient expectations should be central for clinical commissioners
20 October 2011
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Will Any Qualified Provider bring the private sector and the community together?
19-Oct-2011
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'After destructive debate, the case for reform needs to be rebuilt'
13 October 2011
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Consultant choice benefits based on 'limited evidence'
12-Oct-2011
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How to avoid legal pitfalls when procuring goods and services
11-Oct-2011
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Hospital competition could 'negatively affect' quality
10-Oct-2011
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Supply chain faces challenges on two fronts over legal concerns
6-Oct-2011
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'Healthcare without competition is financially unsustainable'
29-Sep-2011
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What the realities of competition mean for organisations' sustainability
26-Sep-2011
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Why sharing information is central to preventing heart conditions
23-Sep-2011
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Healthcare without limits: what the EU directive on cross-border care means for the NHS
30-Aug-2011
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Michael Dixon: it's time for general practice to get real
11-Aug-2011
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Sue Slipman: public board meetings are not a quick fix for accountability
4-Aug-2011
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Commissioners 'excessively constraining' patient choice
28-Jul-2011
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Private hospital spend varies widely, study shows
26-Jul-2011
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Choice plans are 'enforced competition', say GPs
22-Jul-2011
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Private providers demand end to DH 'bureaucracy'
21 July 2011
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Shift in maternity demand at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
14-Jul-2011
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HealthWatch: local scrutiny and national tension
14 July 2011
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Michael White: political meltdown?
14 July 2011
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Labour attacks public services reform plan
12-Jul-2011
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Cameron renews push on public sector reform
11-Jul-2011
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How GPs can help patients make sense of health information
7 July 2011
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Power to the patients: promised improvements to patient choice need backing up
7 July 2011
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Poor choose and book uptake in Bedfordshire
1-Jul-2011
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Major power to be focused at centre
15-Jun-2011
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Assisted suicide documentary defended by Pratchett
14-Jun-2011
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How clinically driven antenatal care can deliver better value maternity services
13-Jun-2011
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The government's failure to justify reform has left the public short of options
9 June 2011
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'Biased' surgeons blamed for unnecessary recall
2-Jun-2011
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'I'm more excited than ever about the healthcare marketplace'
25-May-2011
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How patient opinions are shaping services
17-May-2011
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GP consortium votes to end choose and book LES
16-May-2011
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'Without evidence, the rhetorical reforms are irrelevant at best'
27-Apr-2011
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Reforms listening review 'not PR move'
19-Apr-2011
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'By 2030, when many need it most, healthcare will be in meltdown'
14 April 2011
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Book review: 2030 - The Future of Medicine
7 April 2011
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Cut public service data opt outs, says incoming 'transparency tsar'
31 March 2011
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PCT Network responds to choice complaints
31 March 2011
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DH struggling to achieve consultant choice within deadline
17 March 2011
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Call to change chaplains policy
28-Feb-2011
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Commissioners flouting patient choice rules
24 February 2011
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Competition can work, but only with the right tactics
17 February 2011
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'Accountability in the NHS is a mess'
19-Jan-2011
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Nick Bosanquet: Five steps to security
13 January 2011
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PCT restricts doctors from making 'expensive, non-urgent referrals' to London providers
11-Jan-2011
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Price competition could raise death rates, experts warn
17-Dec-2010
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Disability funding overhaul to improve patient choice
13-Dec-2010
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Patient information is 'at risk'
9 December 2010
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Extending choice to end of life care
1-Dec-2010
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Open clinical data to public, urges Lansley adviser
25 November 2010
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'The challenge is to get better average outcomes and reduce variation'
25 November 2010
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Can patient choice alone force the changes the service needs?
17-Nov-2010
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MPs want power to scrutinise DH spending plans in detail
17-Nov-2010
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Organ transplants hit record high
5-Nov-2010
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More choice needed in end of life care, says King's fund report
28 October 2010
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Fair trading complaint raises healthcare competition warning
21 October 2010
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Trusts must offer choice of consultant led team from April
21 October 2010
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Lansley confirms summary care record roll-out will proceed
11-Oct-2010
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PCT flouts NICE by suspending IVF treatment
1-Sep-2010
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FT proposals: 'difficult questions' remain
26 August 2010
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Competition scrutiny for North West
19 August 2010
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'Postcode lottery in end of life care provision'
11-Aug-2010
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Healthwatch to advise patients on choice
22-Jul-2010
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Information revolution 'could confuse public'
21-Jul-2010
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Patients to be given choice of GP and consultant
12-Jul-2010
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Studies back NHS competition and choice
8 July 2010
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NHS Direct launches treatment decision aids
4-Jun-2010
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Choice more important to patients than doctors
3 June 2010
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BMA questions 'costly venture' of removing practice boundaries
27 May 2010
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Coalition combines NHS policies: Tory competition with Lib Dem local democracy
20-May-2010
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Leaders clash over healthcare at general election debate
16-Apr-2010
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BMA cautious over Tory NHS plans
14-Apr-2010
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Conservatives launch election manifesto
13-Apr-2010
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Labour pledges personalised care revolution
13-Apr-2010
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NHS innovation: can the health service drive new ideas?
8 April 2010
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Norman Warner: face up to NHS efficiencies
8 April 2010
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Andy Jones on defining NHS quality
31 March 2010
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David Kerr: health policy just got personal
31 March 2010
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David Nicholson on NHS incentives and ideology
25 March 2010
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Roger Taylor on the NHS safety debate
18 March 2010
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Contestability and choice
11-Mar-2010
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Paul Corrigan on suspending NHS incentives
11 March 2010
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DH dismisses own advisory panel's claims on procurement and competition as 'anecdote'
4-Feb-2010
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Many commissioners breach NHS competition rules
4 February 2010
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More patients pick private care
4 February 2010
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Stephen Thornton on interpreting NHS performance data
4 February 2010
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Bill Moyes takes pride in rocking the foundations
28 January 2010
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Peterborough PCT chief steps down as deficits pile high
22-Jan-2010
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Care UK chief hits out at renewal process as ITC contracts expire
21 January 2010
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Neil Churchill: advice for managers on giving criticism
21 January 2010
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Your Humble Servant: manifest nonsense
14 January 2010
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NHS IT must focus on efficiency and core elements
16-Dec-2009
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New DH guidance responds to choose and book concerns
14-Dec-2009
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Personal health budgets under fire
9-Dec-2009
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How to make choose and book a success
20-Nov-2009
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Demand management fails as trusts soak up PCT cash
12 November 2009
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DH banking on patients not claiming entitlements
11-Nov-2009
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Hinchingbrooke opens to bidding for franchise
29 October 2009
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Media Watch: bingo wing treatment gets DH backing
29 October 2009
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DH disputes maternity choice findings
27-Oct-2009
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Jon Restell on NHS choice and personalisation
15 October 2009
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GP comparison service launched on NHS Choices
14-Oct-2009
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Phil Hope hails personal health budgets
9-Oct-2009
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Home births
8-Oct-2009
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‘Clunky’ GP contracts raise questions on quality
8 October 2009
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Andrew Lansley on a Conservative recipe for NHS reform
8 October 2009
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SHAs must assess delivery of maternity choice
8 October 2009
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Andrew Lansley pledges to slash NHS bureaucracy
5-Oct-2009
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Choice of male or female GP still unequal
1 October 2009
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FT warning over competition panel ruling on consultants
1 October 2009
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Stephen Eames on defending district general hospitals
1 October 2009
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Andy Burnham speech delivers body blow to NHS competition and choice
24 September 2009
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'Organic' reduction in PCTs under Tories
27 August 2009
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Patient records: jokes about doctors’ bad handwriting are no longer funny
27 August 2009
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Lessons for the UK in Obama’s universal healthcare plan
13 August 2009
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Call to extend clinical outcome data on choose and book
5-Aug-2009
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Tories 'planning NHS cutbacks'
3-Aug-2009
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How to ensure choice in maternity services
28-Jul-2009
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Private patients 'have full NHS rights'
28-Jul-2009
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Minister sets out limits of competition and choice
16 July 2009
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John McGowan: the truth about markets
2 July 2009
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NHS competition panel allows foundation trust to take over community services
30-Jun-2009
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Government to reduce SHAs' performance management role
30-Jun-2009
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Confusion fears over choose and book upgrade
24-Jun-2009
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Changing NHS end of life care for the better
19-Jun-2009
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Home care to ease hospital bed demands
18 June 2009
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Integrated care pilot to be investigated
16-Jun-2009
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Concerns NHS could be challenged under EU competition law
11 June 2009
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Former DH adviser warns NHS funding shortfall could run to billions
11 June 2009
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Southampton City PCT attempts to mitigate £3.6m losses
11 June 2009
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Michael White on the big split over ISTCs
4 June 2009
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Andrew Lansley attacks Alan Johnson
29-May-2009
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Ali Parsa on the meaning of value
28 May 2009
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NHS quality improvement needs patient choice data
7 May 2009
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Rising patient choice fails to improve NHS quality standards
7 May 2009
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Patient involvement: advance care planning gives peace of mind
5-May-2009
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Assisted suicide: a fitting end
1-May-2009
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Advertising watchdog bans SHA from running 'misleading' choice ad
30-Apr-2009
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Pilot will boost patient role in GP service plans
30 April 2009
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London announces first seven polyclinics
29-Apr-2009
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Conservatives to let patients choose individual consultant
23 April 2009
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UK government warns over EU health plans
22-Apr-2009
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Hospital death rates to be published on NHS Choices website
17-Apr-2009
