Delivering patient choice in English acute hospital trusts
Dent, M. and Haslam, Colin
(2006)
Delivering patient choice in English acute hospital trusts.
Accounting Forum (4).
pp. 359-376.
ISSN 0155-9982
The role of the patient within the NHS has changed from supplicant to consumer to active participant. A demand-side patient-led approach is combining quasi-consumerism and participative democracy to inform and facilitate patient choice. On the supply-side funding and incentives coupled to reform and performance will deliver additional hospital capacity and patient choice. This paper argues from both a demand and supply-side perspective that there is a large gap between the rhetoric and reality of delivering patient choice in acute hospitals.
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