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Updated: Added information about the Care Act 2014. Issue Currently NHS patients can - in most circumstances - choose their GP or the hospital they’re referred to. And personal budgets are giving people more choice and control over their social care...

Let me start with a thank you. All of you have been talking about delivering integrated, joined-up care for a very long time and I know sometimes it has felt like banging your head against a brick wall. And now it is happening, for real. Instead of...

Leaflets explaining how the NHS uses patient information will begin landing on the doormats of England’s 26.5 million households from today. Over the next four weeks, every household in England will receive “Better Information Means Better...

Our roundup of the best healthcare news, comment and analysis from around the web Welcome to our weekly roundup of healthcare news from around the web. The news that the Care Quality Commission has uncovered "a catalogue of failings" at Whipps Cross...

Freudian slip: The BBC’s article on the care.data delay was accompanied by this picture of a hand drawing on a diagram of a pair of breasts. Is this a tacit implication that the Department of Health has boobed? (Sorry, ladies) [Image: BBC] A plan...