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The NHS improvement plan : putting people at the heart of public services: Executive summary

  • Document type:
    Publication
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    24 June 2004
  • Primary audience:
    Professionals
  • Product number:
    40281
  • Gateway reference:
    2004
  • Series number:
    Cm 6268
  • Pages:
    5
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

Summarises "The NHS Improvement Plan: Putting People at the Heart of Public Services" (Cm 6268) which sets out the priorities for the NHS between now and 2008. It supports our continuing commitment to a 10-year process of reform first set out in The NHS Plan, in July 2000.

A summary of The NHS Improvement Plan is available in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Guujarati, Urdu, Bengali, Chinese, Vietnamese, Greek, Turkish, Somali and Arabic. The summary is also available on request as an English audio cassette tape, on disk, in braille and in large print. All summary versions are available free of charge from:

Department of Health Publications, PO Box 777 London SE1 6XH Tel: 08701 555 4455 Fax: 01623 724 524 Email: dh@prolog.uk.com

please quote 40281/The NHS Improvement Plan -Executive Summary

The main document, ISBN 0-10-162682-7  is available from TSO (The Stationery Office) priced £17-75

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