(Apologies for cross posting)
Dear Colleagues
The College of Health, a national charity here in the UK, set up to represent the interests of patients and promote greater user involvement in health and social care, is undertaking a small survey on behalf of the Department of Health, on European approaches to patient choice.
There are two questions in particular, which they would be grateful for any assistance that you may be able to provide. These are
1. Which countries offer patients choice of alternative providers, particularly when waiting times standards cannot be met by local providers?
2. For those countries offering choice, have guidelines been put in place to ensure equal access to service and to information necessary for exercising choice for patients who are at risk of exclusion on the basis of ethnicity, language, employment status, sole or main carer for a dependant, or because they have physical or mental health disabilities?
Replies should be directed to Susan Barber e-mail: [log in to unmask] who is leading on this survey.
Best wishes
David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care
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