Greater Choice and Control
Proposals to increase the choices that patients and service users have about their care include:
- Allow patients to choose services from any willing provider;
- Choice of provider for diagnosis;
- Choice of which team, led by a named consultant, that they want to be seen by and what that treatment is after diagnosis;
- Extending maternity choice to include pre-conception, antenatal, and postnatal care;
- Choice of treatment and provider in mental health services;
- Improving the choice of end of life care, moving towards a national choice offer in the future to support those who wish to die at home.
Information Revolution
These proposals set out how people should be given more control over their care records, and how the quality of care provided will improve as a consequence of releasing more data, such as on mixed sex wards and infection rates. They also include:
- Arrangements needed to support choice of any willing provider, such as pricing;
- Technology, like Choose and Book, that people can use to make their choice;
- Possible new duties on healthcare providers and professionals; and,
- Personal Health Budgets
These papers were published in October 2010 and the deadline for responses is 14 January 2011. Both consultation documents and feedback forms can be found below. You can respond online at www.dh.gov.uk/liberatingthenhs or e-mail: choiceconsultation@dh.gsi.gov.uk.
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Greater Choice consultation documentAdobe PDF document, 375Kb
Information Revolution consultation documentAdobe PDF document, 780Kb
Greater Choice feedback formMicrosoft Word document, 211Kb
Information Revolution feedback formMicrosoft Word document, 185Kb