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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
One thing that should go is locking patients to their postcode.
eg. all the GPs in my inner city area are of low standard but in areas outside of the city council they are of much higher quality but because of where I live I cant use them. If patients were given freedom to go where they like for healthcare then there is competition within the nhs but still kept as a public provided service.
Is this what you mean?
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If you read what the reforms are all about then you will find that freedom of choice is one of the changes
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10.5 Patient choice will be strengthened. Patients have the right to choose a GP. To make it easier for patients to exercise informed choice, a much wider range of information will be published about each GP practice including: list size; accessibility; and performance against standards in national service frameworks. Figures will also be published on the number of patients each practice removes from their list.
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