Choice for Patients

Conferences on choice and health inequality

NHS Choices website launched June 2007

See also our page on privatisation and our history of NHS Reform

• 17 Million Reasons - partnership on long-term conditions
• Agitators will inherit the earth Roy Hattersley November 17, 2003 The Guardian
• Audit Commission report: Choice in Public Services September 2004
• Best Treatments - BMJ
• Bevan Lecture 2004 Jane Hutt
• Blind Faith And Choice Rhiannon Tudor Edwards 2005
• Brave New World (needs sound)
• Bring flawed selection system to book Tribune 2006
• Building on the best: Choice, responsiveness and equity in the NHS - response document 9/12/2003
• Can choice for all improve health for all? Dr Marianna Fotaki and others 2006
• Choice Tom Baldwin and Alice Miles The Times 7/8/02
• Choice, excellence and equality - Tony Blair June 2004
• Choices in Mental Health
• Choose and Book
• Choice matters: Increasing choice improves patients’ experiences 2006
• Choice: Will More Choice Improve Outcomes in Education and Health Care? The Evidence from Economic Research 2005
• Citizens Voices or Consumer Choices - Nye Bevan Lecture 2004
• Conservative Vision for Health 2004
• Consumerism and public services - New Labour's marketplace democracy
• Creating a patient-led NHS: 'work in progress'. Pat Hewitt November 2005
• A deeper democracy: Challenging market fundamentalism Angela Eagle MP
• Designing the 'new' NHS - Ideas to make a supplier market in health care work - June 2006
• Disease Mongering
• Discrete choice experiments in health care BMJ 2004
• Does more choice equal more risk? Jennifer Dixon 2006
• Dr Foster
• Early lessons from payment by results Audit Commision October 2005
• Equitable Choices for Health IPPR 205
• Equity Choice Capacity and Culture John Reid New Health Network Conference 7 November 2003
• Fair for All Personal to You - Patient Choice Consultation 2003
• Future of Health and Public Service Regulation Andrew Lansley
• Future Services Network
• HAVE WE OLD 'UNS ANY REAL CHOICE? - Sir Richard Knowles 2005
• Health Impact Assessment of the Patient Choice Agenda Lyn Winters 2006
• Health Service Journal site on Patient Choice
• Healthspace
• Heart surgery in Great Britain - mortality rates of various surgeons
• How Should we Deal with Hospital Failure? - Facing the challenges of the new NHS market Kings Fund December 2005
• I Want Great Care - site to rate Doctors
• IWantGreatCare - a dangerous currency for quality? Health Policy Today, 14 July 2008
• Improving Services, Improving Lives: Evidence and Key Themes Social Exclusion Unit
• Labour must seize the policies of diversity and choice Alan Milburn 2002
• London Patient Choice Programme
• London Patient Choice Project Evaluation
• Making it Personal
• Medicines and Choice Which 2005
• Meeting the Challenges of the New NHS market - Kings Fund 2005
• Milburn moots personal NHS budgets
• National Patient Choice Survey Nov 2006
• Netherlands healthchoice (in Dutch)
• New Business Structures in Health and Social Care - Moore Adamson Craig Partnership 2006
• The NHS Improvement Plan : Putting people at the heart of public services June 2004
• Office of Public Services Reform
• Patient Choice: Speech By John Spiers, Reform conference, 7 April 2003
• Patient Choice at the Point of GP Referral - National Audit Office 2005
• Patient's Choice - Steve Iliffe
• Patient Opinion
• PCTs struggling to enable all patients to make choices, King’s Fund says
• Picker Institute
• Policy Exchange Health Poll – MAY 2007
• Practice based commissioning
• The price of everything, David Janner-Klausner
• Private Complaints and Public Health - Richard Titmuss
• Public Services - Tony Blair speech 29/1/04
• Public Views on Choices in Health and Health Care: A qualitative study Kings Fund 2005
• Registering Choice: How primary care should change to meet patient needs Paul Corrigan 2006
• Reconfiguration Birth Pains Tribune 2007
• Quality for All - Alex Scott-Samuel
• Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health More choice for better mental health
• SHA Conference - Patients Consumers Citizens 2003
• SHA Conference - Whose choice? What choice? - Mental health 2003
• Social Enterprise and Community-based Care - Is there a future for mutually-owned organisations in community and primary care? Kings Fund 2006
• Social enterprise in primary and community care Pat Hewitt 2006
• Social Enterprise Coalition
• Supporting Patient Choice: Learning from Stakeholders NHS North West 2007
• The sick can't shop around Roy Hattersley November 14, 2003 The Guardian
• Trip to France
• Understanding Patients’ Choices at the Point of Referral
• Vaccine required to stop this madness
• What do we know about patient choice? Ian Greener 2006
• What is the Real Cost of More Patient Choice? Kings Fund 2003
• What patients really think of the NHS New Health Network 2005
• Where the patient was King HIV services in London
• Your Health Your Care Your Say

Cartoon by Peter Rigg

31/7/08