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Patients are to be given a choice of hospitals across England for operations as a key NHS reform is expanded. Ministers are to announce that 32 foundation trusts will be added to the list of local hospitals that patients currently choose from. From the start of this year, people have been able to choose between four hospitals for elective surgery. But patient groups said people tended to want to stay local so the extra choice would not mean a great deal. Patient choice has been one of the government's key reforms to make the NHS more patient-friendly ...........