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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Martin Bagot

NHS reforms announced today with patients set to ‘shop around’ for care

Sajid Javid will today outline his “new vision for NHS reform” which places more responsibility on the patient for their own care.

The Health Secretary will push forward plans to allow patients on the record NHS waiting list to shop around for NHS care.

Most of the six million NHS patients caught in England’s treatment backlog can already go online to compare hospital waiting lists, before requesting via their GP to be treated elsewhere in the country.

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