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<p>NHS England is working to secure a sustained improvement in awareness, offer, operation
and take up of choice by 2020. This includes supporting the independent Maternity
Services Review, which is due for publication early in the New Year, and taking forward
any recommendations that relate to choice; improving the quality of End of Life Care
and the choices people should have about where they receive their care and where they
choose to die; strengthening choice in both physical and mental health elective services,
to ensure that the NHS honours patients’ legal rights to choice of who provides their
care; and securing choice in the design and implementation of new care models for
the future NHS.</p><br /><p>NHS England has brought this work together with their
programmes on personal health budgets and integrated personal commissioning, under
a new Director and with additional resource, to accelerate the work in all of these
areas in support of the Five Year Forward View commitment to deliver greater patient
empowerment. Improvements will be assessed through a new national assessment framework
for clinical commissioning groups.</p>
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