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Extending choice or Hobson’s choice – Shadow Health Secretary attacks government initiative

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Healthcare Market News (News) October 2004The government’s Patient Choice programme will be controlled by bureaucracy and will not provide patients with genuine options about where to receive treatment, Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has claimed. Speaking at Laing & Buisson’s Annual PMI Conference last month, Lansley said that there were significant differences between the government’s…

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