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Do patients choose hospitals that improve their health? – Centre for Health Economics (CHE)<\/strong>
\nPatients in the English NHS can choose which hospital to attend for planned surgery. Among other things, their choice depends on the quality of care that each hospital provides. But the existing information on hospital quality is often limited and focuses only on the negative experience of patients, for example how many patients died after surgery or were readmitted for unplanned care. Patients increasingly have access to better information on hospital quality. The NHS has recently begun to publish information on improvements in health as reported by patients themselves. This paper tests whether hip replacement patients in England are more likely to attend a hospital that achieves larger improvements in their patients\u2019 health<\/a>. It finds that health improvements are more important for the choice of hospital than readmission or mortality rates. However, patients\u2019 reaction to quality information is generally limited: even for large changes in quality patients would only be willing to travel few kilometres more.<\/p>\n

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Patient experience – Picker Institute
\n<\/strong><\/span>Improving patient experience is going to be a big challenge for the incoming government, according to Picker Institute Europe. Picker has created an infographic <\/a>which highlights some of the key patient experience related challenges, that need to be addressed going forward, if a person centred approach is to be achieved.<\/p>\n

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Expanding \u2018super-practice\u2019 wants GPs to work across secondary care \u2013 Health Service Journal<\/strong>
\nA GP \u2018super-practice\u2019 is seeking doctors to work in urgent care centres, accident and emergency and other secondary care settings across the East Midlands<\/a> as part of ambitious expansion plans.\u00a0Corby based Lakeside Healthcare has already announced its intention to become the country\u2019s largest GP led primary care provider in the country, with an aim to establish a registered list of 300,000 patients.<\/p>\n