Improving communication with patients in the NHS

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• strengthen the hospital’s market position. Few would argue that this is a patient-centred approach to the problem.2 The Audit Commission’s work was implicitly influenced by the growing interest among academics in the role of communication in healthcare. The topic, of course, was not a new discovery in the 1990s. This field of

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