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Rationing in the NHS : principles and pragmatism

Author:

Policy Institute (King's Fund), New, Bill, and Le Grand, Julian

Publication date:

1996

Abstract:

How to ration health care is perhaps the most contentious issue currently facing the NHS. The debate is polarised between the view that decisions over rationing should be more explicit, systematic and democratic, and those who argue that such strategies are unrealistic and fail to understand both how the NHS ...
The rationing agenda in the NHS

Author:

Policy Institute (King's Fund), Rationing Agenda Group, and New, Bill

Publication date:

1996

Abstract:

This paper presents the issues relating to rationing in the NHS. The group holds the view that rationing is unavoidable and feels that there should be a more explicit debate about the principles and issues involved. Questions are considered under four headings: preliminaries, ethics, democracy and empirical questions. The preliminaries ...