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Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services.

  • Document type:
    Command paper
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    30 January 2006
  • Primary audience:
    Public,Professionals
  • Product number:
    ISBN: 0101673728
  • Gateway reference:
    Not required
  • Series number:
    Cm 6737
  • Pages:
    236
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

This White Paper sets a new direction for the whole health and social care system. It confirms the vision set out in the Department of Health Green Paper, Independence, Well-being and Choice. There will be a radical and sustained shift in the way in which services are delivered, ensuring that they are more personalised and that they fit into people's busy lives. We will give people a stronger voice so that they are the major drivers of service improvement.

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Erratum: Chapter 6, paragraph 6.39 should read:

'6.39 These will be places where a wide range of health and social care services can work together to provide integrated services to the local community.  Serving catchment areas of roughly 100,000 people, they will complement more specialist hospitals, but will not take on complex procedures, for example major surgery requiring general anaesthetic nor provide fully-fledged A&E facilities. They will be places where'.

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