Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust contingency planning team final report – HM Government
This report states that improving the way services are currently delivered, through an innovative, more joined-up approach across Tameside and Glossop, will improve the care patients receive and put Tameside NHS Foundation Trust back on to a sound clinical and financial footing.

Outpatient appointment referrals survey –  Monitor
This survey indicates that too few NHS patients say that they are being offered a choice about where they receive care, indicating that more work needs to be done to promote patient choice across the NHS. 40 per cent of respondents to NHS England and Monitor’s annual survey into patient choice said they were offered a choice of hospital or clinic for their first outpatient appointment by their GPs. The survey indicated that, where patients are offered a choice, they are much more likely to be able to go to the hospital or clinic they want.

ReseArch with Patient and Public invOlvement: a RealisT evaluation – the RAPPORT study –  National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) 
Patient and public involvement (PPI) is a prerequisite for many funding bodies and NHS research ethics approval. PPI in research is defined as research carried out with or by the public rather than to, about or for them. While the benefits of PPI have been widely discussed, there is a lack of evidence on the impact and outcomes of PPI in research. The aim of this study is to determine the types of PPI in funded research, describe key processes, analyse the contextual and temporal dynamics of PPI and explore the experience of PPI in research for all those involved.

NHS maximum waiting times and patient choice policies –  House of Commons Library
This briefing sets out policy on maximum waiting time standards and patient choice in the English NHS.

Community Health Services
NHS Providers has published Community health services: a way of life. This publication and infographic, with supporting blog, sets out a new vision to recognise and expand the role of NHS community health services.  The publication includes three case studies from across the country showcasing different models of community services.

Routes to cancer diagnosis data
Public Health England has published Routes to Diagnosis 2006-2013, preliminary results.   This document presents the preliminary results from the fourth iteration of the Routes to Diagnosis project. Updated data cover 2006 to 2013, with 2011-2013 data being published for the first time. These data show the proportion of patients diagnosed by route and by year in England. The report shows that proportion of cancers diagnosed as a result of emergency presentation at hospital has decreased; at the same time, the proportion of cancers diagnosed through urgent GP referral with a suspicion of cancer has increased.