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Patient choice means that most NHS patients in England can choose to be seen in any hospital in England that provides a clinically appropriate service and meets NHS standards and costs, when they are referred by their GP to a first outpatient appointment.〔http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_083590.pdf〕 ==History== * 2002 - Patient choice pilots begin. Patients with Coronary disease are offered faster care from alternative providers * 2003 - All NHS patients likely to wait more than 6 months for inpatient treatment, offered choice of quicker treatment at alternative provider * January 2006 - patients referred to hospital could choose between at least 4 hospitals. * April 2006 – launch of extended choice – patients have access to a national menu of hospitals including Foundation Trusts, Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) and Independent Sector (IS) providers on what is known as the Extended Choice Network. * July 2007 – launch of Free Choice at a specialty level – patients have free choice in Orthopaedics. * December 2007 - patients have free choice in General Surgery, Gynaecology and Cardiology. * April 2008 - Under what is known as Free Choice policy, most patients have been able to choose services from any hospital provider that is clinically appropriate and meets NHS standards and costs, including NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Acute Trusts and many independent sector providers and their hospitals.〔http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_085723.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patient choice of hospital in the English NHS」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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