Delivering patient choice in English acute hospital trusts

Mike Dent and Colin Haslam

Accounting Forum, 2006, vol. 30, issue 4, 359-376

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2006.08.004

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