Although some of the key planks of the NHS reform programme, such as Payment by Results (PbR) and patient choice, began to take shape from 2003, it is only recently that the Department of Health has begun to publish guidance, aimed at people working within the NHS, that attempts to ...
In the past few years, rapid and significant changes have taken place in the social, political and policy environment in which health professionals and patients interact. This paper reports on the Patient Involvement Project, a King's Fund study that assessed changing relationships between health professionals and patients/clients in a changing ...
This is a report on the process evaluation undertaken as part of the King's Fund Promoting Patient Choice initiative. The report outlines: the background to the project; the purpose and method of the evaluation; findings from the seven sites (information about the application stage, the development process and the evaluation ...