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Department of Health White Paper - Our health our care our say: a new direction for community services
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In January 2006 the Department of Health published The authors' health, their care, their say: A new direction for community services, which represents a ‘fundamental shift’ towards integrated services provided in local communities.Abstract:
In January 2006 the Department of Health published Our health, our care, our say: A new direction for community services. It is the government’s seventh White Paper on health since coming to office in 1997 and, after several years of reform aimed at the acute hospital sector, it represents what Patricia Hewitt, the Secretary of State for Health, calls a ‘fundamental shift’ towards integrated services provided in local communities.read more
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