Patient Choice

If you need non-emergency treatment you now have a choice of four hospitals. So, why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?

• You matter to us
• Close to home
• Easy to get to
• Best of the best
• Centre for latest research
• Top teaching hospital
• Addenbrooke's achieves

What does choice mean?

Patients needing elective (planned) treatment will be offered a choice of at least four treatment providers once their GP has decided that a referral is required. These providers could be NHS trusts, foundation trusts, treatment centres, private hospitals or practitioners with a special interest operating within primary care.

As well as choosing where they go, patients will be able to choose when they go by phoning an appointments line, booking over the internet, or booking at their GP surgery.

From May 2006, patients have extended choice and can choose to be treated at a foundation trust in another part of the country. Independent sector treatment centres will also become choice options during 2006. By 2008, patients in England can opt to choose any healthcare provider complying with NHS standards.