Sentences with phrase «patients hand the power»

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The prime minister revealed plans to make the NHS more flexible, while placing power in the hands of staff and patients.

And Liberals argued for local government to have a role in the NHS right from its founding, for fear that a fully centralised system would put too much power in the hands of central government instead of the professionals and the patients.

NHS hospitals could go bust, face fines of up to ten per cent of their turnover and face shutdown without any consultation; patients could suffer as hospitals prioritise those who can afford to pay; and, most interestingly, new powers could hand GP the right to charge for services.

The logic of Andrew Lansley's reforms is precisely to reverse this imbalance: to put power within the NHS in the hands of those who understand patients, the GPs, in those who are accountable to patients, the local authority.

Ed Miliband has said a future Labour government would create a «new culture» for public services in England, handing more power to parents and patients.

Engineers and physicians at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a hand - held, battery - powered device that quickly picks up vital signs from a patient's lips and fingertip.

As an acupuncture patient herself for over 20 years, she experienced first hand the power Eastern Medicine had in healing her own illness and injuries.