Harness the power of information

Strong information is the key to the success of patient choice – launched in full this month. Alexis Nolan looks at how to gather it and how to use it to get clinicians and patients on board.

After six months of debate on primary care trust reconfiguration, the future of primary care provision and the quality of commissioning, has the introduction of full patient choice been forgotten? Hardly – but it has had a relatively low profile.
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