Patients can see how key issues made

PATIENTS are to be given an insight into how health bosses make decisions.
Derbyshire Primary Care trust is holding a free Have Your Say on the Decisions Made in the NHS event on Thursday, September 11, in Swanwick, and again on Tuesday, October 7, in Bakewell.
Activities include an exercise, where the trust will give participants several scenarios and they will have the chance to decide where they would like to see more money spent and vote on key issues.
Pam Purdue, trust head of public and patient involvement, said: "The day is intended to help patients and public understand what lies behind the headlines they may have seen where patients have been denied drugs, how they can contribute to decisions made about their health services, and what the PCT is all about."
The event will be held between 9.30am and 4.30pm.