Patient care - ensuring fast and convenient access to services, empowering and informing patients so that they can be more involved in their own care. Reassuringly, significant increases in resources have been promised to underpin this ambitious initiative - 19.4 billion pounds over the next four years. Increasing emphasis on evidence-based practice and policy. Clinical governance and increasingly explicit links between resources and performance. Reforms in medical education and training to encourage a whole system approach to health.
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