Article: Patients should cc the benefits of doctors' letters; Health Minister calls on professional bodies to support patient information programme.

M2 PRESSWIRE-12 February 2007-UK Government: Patients should cc the benefits of doctors' letters; Health Minister calls on professional bodies to support patient information programme(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Patients should be kept informed of their condition and care said health minister Rosie Winterton today, as she called on healthcare professionals to make more effort to routinely copy letters to their patients.

Ms Winterton will be writing to healthcare professional bodies like the RCN, BMA, and General Practitioners Committee, urging them to encourage their members to copy patients into correspondence between ...

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