• 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: