If you need treatment for a non-emergency condition, you can now expect it to start sooner than ever before.
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Text continues: "As long as you choose it and it is appropriate for you, you now have the right for any non-emergency treatment that you need to start within a maximum of 18 weeks, or for the NHS to take all reasonable steps to offer you a range of alternatives if this is not possible. In fact, most patients will start their treatment much sooner than that. Your rights around waiting times and everything else about your NHS care are set out in the NHS Constitution, which brings together - for the first time in one place - what we can all expect from the NHS and what is expected of us in return. To read the NHS Constitution or to find out just how many ways there are for you to access the NHS, please: visit www.nhs.uk/nhsconstitution, call NHS Direct on 0845 46 47 or ask your GP."
At foot of poster: The NHS Constitution. The NHS belongs to us all.
Poster informing about the NHS constitution.
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