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PROFESSIONALISM

Feature - 25 September 2006

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    • Making partnership between patients and doctors a reality

    In the second of two articles, Sarah Claridge from the Picker Institute reports on research suggesting that the UK’s doctors are less successful at engaging with patients than their counterparts in several other modern healthcare systems – and examines how their performance might be improved.

    Modern day doctors are required to form a working relationship – a health partnership – with their patients to enable them to be actively involved in managing their own health care.

    The benefits of patient involvement for patients, healthcare practitioners and the NHS purse are increasingly recognised at a policy level, yet in the UK we are the worst of many developed nations at the implementation of the policy, as is revealed in a study by the Picker Institute....

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