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The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) – is it person-centered?

Andrew Miles, Jonathan Elliot Asbridge

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Clinical quality, clinical workforce, digital healthcare, effectiveness, efficiency, general practice, health inequalities, iatrogenic injury, institutional distress, medical error, National Strategies for Person-Centered Healthcare, NHS Long Term Plan (2

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