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Article: Patients given hospitals choice
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- March 29, 2008
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PATIENTS will be able to select appointments at any hospital in
the country under a flagship Government initiative.
From April 1, patients referred to hospital by their GP will be
able to choose to go anywhere in England including a number of
private units.
Ministers have pressed for the move as part of efforts to give
patients more power.
They also hope it will put pressure on under-performing
hospitals to improve their services or risk losing patients to
rivals.
Surveys suggest hospitals with lower waiting times, lower rates