Welcome to The Patients Association

The Patients Association is a national charity providing patients with an opportunity to raise concerns and share experiences of healthcare.

Through our Helpline, correspondence and research we learn from patients the issues that are of concern and work towards improving the healthcare we all receive.

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All About Health Survey 2009 launched

Today, the Patients Association launched a new survey, All About Health 2009, that gives patients and the public the opportunity to give their views on everything from charging for GP appointments, where the future promises for medicine lie and where they go to seek health advice.

TO TAKE PART IN THE SURVEY CLICK HERE 

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Patients Association and Cure the NHS launch National Petition

Today, the Patients Association and Cure the NHS have launched a national petition calling for an independent inquiry. With cross party support from senior MPs including Liberal Democrat Party leader Nick Clegg MP and local Conservative MP Bill Cash we are calling for all patients and members of the public to join us in our campaign. Andrew Lansley MP, Conservative Shadow Health Secretary has also called for an independent inquiry in the House of Commons.

The Patients Association and Cure the NHS asks all those concerned about the appalling standard of care at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust to sign the following petition:

I the undersigned support the Patients Association and Cure the NHS in calling for an Independent Inquiry chaired by a Senior judicial figure with clear published terms of reference to provide an answer to the following questions:

How were the serious failings in care at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust able to continue for so many years?

Can the public have confidence that the current and future systems of supervision and regulation will ensure safe hospital care for patients in the National Health Service and prevent this from ever happening again?

TO SIGN THE PETITION CLICK HERE

More details will be announced shortly.

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18^th March 2009

PRESS RELEASE

 

THE COST OF HOSPITAL VISITS - unique exit survey is launched

 

YOUR HOSPITAL VISIT - your experience counts.

Tell us your views - good and bad - about your visit to your hospital.

Surveys about the NHS are nothing new.  Today, however, the Patients Association is asking patients, visitors and staff about the issues that often get ignored but are as important in ensuring a modern patient-centered service.  (The survey is now closed and the results being processed)

 

We will be presenting the findings at the Health Estates and Facilities Managers Annual Conference in May and want to include YOUR views on your experience and what information you need to make informed decisions about your healthcare.

 

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100 Day Challenge

Make patient safety your number one priority

We are asking the Chairs of all NHS Boards to make Patient Safety the first agenda item at all their Board Meetings, for more details please click here 

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Sir Richard Branson's Interview

“Fighting health care infections has to be an all or nothing affair. There can be no halfway house." 

If you would like to read the full interview given by Sir Richard Branson, Vice-President of the Patients Association, on MRSA prevention and published by the BBC online on 23rd December 2008, please click here.

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Annual Health Check

If you would like to see how your local hospital fared in the latest Annual Health Check that was published on 16th October 2008, please click here and enter your postcode.

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New Report Published

The Patient Association's latest report, Community Pharmacist - Here to Help is now available. To read this report, please click here.

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Become a PA Member

If you would like to become a member, please click here to register or send us an email to mailbox@patients-association.com. We will shortly provide you with more information on how to get more involved in the Patients Association activities.

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The Patient Association's new report on the Dental Contract is launched.

The Patient Association's latest report, 'The Dental Contract: Full of Holes and Causing Pain?' was launched on Thursday, 6th of March at the Institute of Civil Engineers. To download the report, click here.

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PA Guide to.....

See our guides to being proactive in your healthcare!

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Parliament Reviews Patient Risk & Biosimilar Medicines

The Patients Association recently took part in a House of Lords Review of Biosimilar Medicines. For full details of the event please see our events pages

The Patients Association is a national charity providing patients with an opportunity to raise concerns and share experiences of healthcare.

Through our Helpline, correspondence and research we learn from patients the issues that are of concern and work towards improving the healthcare we all receive.

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