The NHS plan sets ambitious targets, central to which is shifting the balance of power to frontline staff and patients as well as reducing waiting times in all areas.

The Expert Patient Initiative seeks a fundamental shift in the way chronic disease is managed - encouraging and giving patients the tools to take an active role in their own care.

The Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST), and the Scottish equivalent CNORIS, requires patients provide informed consent prior to a treatment or investigation. Informed consent enables patients to actively choose a course of action that is right for them as individuals, being guided by professionals, but taking responsibility for their own decisions.

The need for high quality information that is accurate, relevant and accessible within the NHS has never been greater

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