NHS Confederation comments on patient choice survey findings
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Tuesday, 02, Sep 2008 12:00
Commenting on the survey findings, Nigel Edwards, Policy Director at the NHS Confederation, which represents over 95% of NHS organisations, said:
“We have made a great deal of progress on the take up and awareness of choice since this survey started. With the advent of free choice from April of this year we expect these figures to improve further in future.
“Choice is such a powerful mechanism that small changes in patient behaviour can effect large scale changes in the NHS system as a whole. Variations in figures over relatively short periods are less important than the positive benefits choice can bring over time.”
ENDS
Notes for Editors
1. The NHS Confederation represents more than 95% of the organisations that make up the NHS. Its members include the majority of NHS acute trusts, ambulance trusts, foundation trusts, mental health trusts, primary care trusts, special health authorities and strategic health authorities in England; trusts and local health boards in Wales; and health and social service trusts and boards in Northern Ireland.
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