More than one million referrals to specialist care have been made through choose and book by GPs across England, health minister Lord Warner has announced.
He said 85 per cent of all practices were using the IT system to make referrals, and more than 6,000 practices made referrals last week.
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Providers and commissioners are coming forward to work together more strategically to deliver better outcomes for their local populations, say Dr Gordon Macmillan and Dr Chirag Bakhai
An £84m urgent and emergency care transformation in Middlesbrough, system wide cancer reconfiguration in South Yorkshire, and a large elective care centre in Norfolk were among projects which missed out on recent government funding.
A major reconfiguration plan for services in north west London has been rebuffed by the centre for the second time.
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