SOCIALIST HEALTH ASSOCIATION

Promoting health and well-being through the application of socialist principles

Rationing Healthcare

Promoting health and well-being through the application of socialist principles

We stand for:

Universal Healthcare meeting patients’ needs, free at the point of use, funded by taxation.
Democracy based on freedom of information, election not selection and local decision making.
Equality based on equality of opportunity, affirmative action, and progressive taxation.

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Rationing Healthcare

‘The concept of health tourism for HIV treatment is an outdated myth. This suggestion is outrageous.’ August 11, 2019
Government funding cuts leave sexual health and HIV care at ‘breaking point’ October 2, 2018
Halt unnecessary treatments to save the NHS billions December 29, 2017
NHS Continuing Healthcare funding: anomalous, irregular, and often baffling July 20, 2017
Free abortions in England will not remove the fundamental injustice Northern Irish women suffer July 17, 2017
Let Them Eat Cake April 14, 2017
Why you can’t solve the NHS’s problems by banning smokers and the obese from treatment March 15, 2017
Deemed Consent for Organ Donation – one year on in Wales. December 1, 2016
Redefining severity: how to reduce NHS costs in the 21st century November 30, 2016
TACKLING INEQUALITY — CAN YOU FOLLOW THE MONEY? December 7, 2015
Will Personal Health Budgets Destroy the NHS? September 2, 2015
Cancer Treatment Fund for Wales? November 6, 2014
Bean counting and the NHS July 17, 2014
Why do all the forbidden words in the NHS begin with R: “Rationing”, “Reorganisation” and Rationalisation. April 9, 2014
NHS Incorporated January 6, 2014
Oregon Health Plan May 23, 2013
Rationing/priority setting May 22, 2013
Interview with Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of Royal College of General Practitioners. May 21, 2013
Care UK’s self-pay charges April 5, 2013
Cameron’s forgotten patients March 14, 2013
Revealed: Full Extent Of Cameron’s Health Lottery March 13, 2013
How “comprehensive” is the NHS? Or “Something’s gotta give”? January 14, 2013
An honest debate about rationing medicine? September 25, 2012
Labour Health Policy Consultation August 2, 2012
Manipulating waiting lists July 21, 2012
Doctors back denial of treatment for smokers and the obese April 29, 2012
A New Kind of Doctor 2 Liberal Retreat October 9, 1988

Access to Healthcare

Are we wasting money on care that patients don’t want?
Britain’s Healthcare Lottery – Channel 4 2006
A code of conduct for private practice: recommended standards of practice for NHS consultants
Doctors back denial of treatment for smokers and the obese 2012
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
An honest debate about rationing medicine? 2012
How much will Herceptin really cost? BMJ (paywall) 2006
Mind the Gap: Sustaining Improvements in the NHS Beyond 2008 – BUPA
Money should be ‘no object’ for NHS, says public August 2006
NHS Rationing : A Guide to Post Code Prescribing in the National Health Service
NICE chairman hits back at critics HSJ 2008 (paywall)
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 (paywall)
Practice based commissioning
Rationing health care: is it time to set out more clearly what is funded by the NHS? 2012
Should patients be able to pay top-up fees to receive the treatment they want? BMJ 2008 (paywall)
Standing Committee debate on the establishment of NICE 1999
Supply and Demand: Enoch Powell
Swedish experience 2007
Thinking about rationing 2012
Topping up the NHS SHA 2008
Viagra raises profile of health rationing debate David Hunter 1998
The Oregon Health Plan

The Director discussing rationing in Oldham:

The Socialist Health Association is a campaigning membership organisation. We promote health and well-being and the eradication of inequalities through the application of socialist principles to society and government. We believe that these objectives can best be achieved through collective rather than individual action.