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You may have noticed that the Department of Health has many grand IT schemes - read more from Connecting for Health at the Website.
Choose & Book
Choose and Book is a new service that allows you to choose your hospital or clinic and book an appointment with a specialist. Since summer 2004, Choose and Book has been introduced across England. It will eventually be available to all patients. From 1 January 2006, when you and your GP agree that you need to see a specialist, you will be able to choose from at least four hospitals or clinics. You will also be able to choose the date and time of your appointment.
NHS Choose & Book Website - C&B - CaB
BEEN REFERRED BY YOUR GP OR HAD A LETTER?
MAKE YOUR HOSPITAL APPOINTMENT - HERE
LEARN ABOUT MAKING CHOICES - HERE
(Please note not all appointments are directly bookable online currently)
 The Department of Health is making 18-week referral to treatment times available to patients on the NHS Choices website.
Patients can use the DH’s flagship website to see the percentage of admitted patients treated within 18 weeks from referral, and the number of weeks from which half of admitted patients started treatment from their referral.
Nick Chapman, national director of 18-week waits, said the information currently on the website is based on data from the three months spanning October to December 2007, and will be updated on a three monthly rolling period.
If there is data for less than 20 patients over the three month period, the information will not be shown.
The ‘Compare Hospitals’ section of the site also enables patients to see average length of stay, readmission rates, number of procedures performed per year and MRSA rates. NHS Choices hopes to develop the hospital scorecards by attracting more feedback from patients for the patient ratings section and publishing additional data such as C difficile rates as well as more information on clinical outcomes.
Appointment Information Line
If you have been referred to or are currently under the care of a Hospital Consultant and you are waiting for a date for a hospital appointment you can now ring the appointment information line to enquire about your appointment - 0800 252060. You can also use this number if you want to change the date or cancel your appointment if you no longer need it.
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