Policy News

Briefings 31: Choice in Mental Health Care (King's Fund and The Sainsbury's Centre for Mental Health 2006)

• Briefing paper summarises the findings of a review of the literature on choice and mental health carried out in July 2005,
• Includes information on direct payment, advance directives and advance statements.

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Creating a Patient Led NHS. Delivering the NHS Improvement Plan (Department of Health 2005)

• Illustrates the major changes which are intended in the NHS Improvement Plan and how this plan will be conveyed. It explains that some of the biggest changes are expected to be within a patient led healthcare service

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Choosing Health: Making healthy choices easier (Department of Health 2004)

• Shows the government's support for the promotion of good health across all sectors of society

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Health reform in England: update and commissioning framework (Department of Health 2006)

• Update on health reform and NHS commissioning

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Our health, our care, our say (Department of Health 2006)

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Choice Matters - Increasing choice improves patient experience, (Department of Health 2006)

• Update on patient choice and choose and book from both healthcare professionals and patients experiences

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Criteria for assessing core standards in 2006/2007 (Healthcare Commission 2006)

• Sets out the criteria for assessing core standards covering healthcare in the NHS

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10 High Impact Changes for Service Improvement and Delivery

• Changes aimed to make sure that everyone receives the best possible care, improve quality of care and efficiency of services

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