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Commission Interim Report
Interim report of the Commission on Representing the Public Interest in the Health Service
Foreword
1
Setting the scene
2
The management and governance of the NHS
2.1
How the NHS is run
2.2
NHS Finance and budgeting procedures
2.3
Spending and resource allocation in the NHS
3
Accountability in the NHS
3.1
Community Health Councils
3.2
Accountability: rights to consultation
3.3
Accountability: NHS complaints procedures
4
The public interest, accountbility and the NHS
4.1
The attractions and pitfalls of rights
4.2
Freedom of information
4.3
Improving democratic accountability options to reform
NHS structures
4.4
Improving democratic accountability options on budgets
& financial incentives
4.5
Improving democratic accountability: options on systems,
watchdogs, patients rights and complaint mechanisms
References
Annex 1
Members of the Commision
Annex 2
Evidence received: list of bodies
Annex 3
NHS Structures and Governance
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