Patients get four choices for NHS treatments: Choose and book has not left the station

doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.180

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David M Lewis (david.lewis@nhs.net), general practitioner

Tudor Surgery, Watford WD24 7PH

Editor—UK general practitioners have no contractual obligation to offer patients a choice of provider.1 My practice calculated that with some 50 elective referrals to hospital each week we would need to spend nearly £4500 …