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Last modified date:8 February 2007
Key documents about the Copying Letters to Patients scheme.
Good practice guidelines
Other key documents
- Download Copying referral letters to patients (Dr.Christopher Jones, Longfleet House Surgery - April 2003) (PDF, 6K)
- Download Results of fact-finding exercise (Sept 2002) (PDF, 19K)
- Speech by Harry Cayton, National Director for Patients and the Public: Copying letters to patients (November 2002)
- Download WHC (2002) 124 Copying Letters to Patients: Next steps in Wales (PDF, 38K)
Pilot projects
- Download table of projects set up to test-drive the Copying Letters to Patients initiative (PDF, 12K)
- Download summaries of 12 pilot project sites (PDF, 146K)
- Download Over seven years experience of writing letters to parents (PDF, 53K)
- Download An assessment of whether modifying letter by explaining medical terminology improves patients' understanding and an economic evaluation of one system in general practice (PDF, 102K)
- Download Copies of letters about children: areas of consensus and of potential conflict between professionals, parents and children (PDF, 111K)
- Download Copying Letters to Patients Project (PDF, 340K)
- Download Copying patient letters to non-English speakers (PDF, 381K)
- Download Report on the Copying Letters Project (PDF, 55K)
- Download "Shouldn't everyone know what is being written about them?" (PDF, 373K)
The Working Group on Copying Letters to Patients
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Copying letters to patients learning resource
This resource has been developed with contributions from over 60 NHS organisations. It presents their experiences of implementing Copying Letters to Patients.
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