Exercising patient choice (The Patients' Association, 13 September 2023)

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If the NHS doesn't fund the medical treatment you need in your area, or you are unhappy about where you are going to be treated on the NHS, you have the legal right to go elsewhere and still be treated by the NHS, even if it's outside your local NHS Trust area. In this short blog, patient Verite Reily Collins writes about the rights patients have to choose where they receive their care, and how this may help overcome barriers in access to treatment.

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