Reconfiguring acute hospitals in England

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A side effect of patient choice?

Ike Anya, specialist registrar in public health medicine

¹Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London WC1E 6BT ikeanya@doctors.org.uk

Ham illustrates the tension between the need for collaboration between hospitals to ensure appropriate location of specialist services and the opposing need to compete promoted by a pro-market policy agenda which undermines collaboration.1

However, the editorial does not explore the effect that the monomaniac promotion of patient choice to the exclusion of any …