Higher access targets for brave new NHS
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The UK scheme to widen the patients' choice of access to NHS surgery services is to be extended to "up to 50 providers" from April 2006, the government announced today. The move adds a certain sense of urgency to the ongoing reforms affecting the way service provision is costed and, in turn, to decision-making that will affect medical technology purchasing (see this issue).