Rationing of healthcare
Even the title is controversial. Some people prefer to call it priority setting. But anyone who pretends that any healthcare system does not ration healthcare is lying. Below two videos of my talk to the Oldham PCT citizens'jury on fairness.
- Britain's Healthcare Lottery - Channel 4
- A code of conduct for private practice: recommended standards of practice for NHS consultants
- Doctors for Reform
- How much will Herceptin really cost? BMJ 2006
- Ex-NHS adviser slams cancer care lottery July 2006
- Great Expectations: Achieving a Sustainable Health System ippr 2007
- Health Select Committee: The Use of New Medical Technologies within the NHS 2005
- Healthcare funding review BMA etc Feb 2001
- How much will Herceptin really cost? BMJ 2006
- Mind the Gap: Sustaining Improvements in the NHS Beyond 2008 - BUPA
- Money should be 'no object' for NHS, says public August 2006
- NHS scandal: dying cancer victim was forced to pay The Times 2008
- NICE chairman hits back at critics HSJ 2008
- NICE guidance for patients and the public
- No one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds. Ronald Reagan 1964
- Oldham Health Commission into Fairness
- Paying for statins BMJ Feb 2004
- Practice based commissioning
- Should patients be able to pay top-up fees to receive the treatment they want? BMJ 2008
- Standing Committee debate on the establishment of NICE 1999
- Swedish experience
- Topping up the NHS SHA 2008
- Viagra raises profile of health rationing debate David Hunter 1998
- The Oregon Health Plan
Will Topping Up Payments lead to the end of the National Health Service? SHA Seminar London 2nd October 2008
