title: Any qualified provider and its role in bladder and bowel care.
abstract: The Department of Health's Any Qualified Provider (AQP) policy blindsided specialist continence services in 2011. Continence AQP services, once qualified, can bid to provide additional continence services to areas in the country where local commissioners have decided they would like competition in the local area to give patients greater choice in service provision and drive up clinical standards. This short article looks at this subject in more depth.
authors.affiliation: ARC Health Care Management Consultant Limited.
authors.forename: Mandy
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wells
mesh_terms: D005242:Fecal Incontinence / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000451:nursing*