Rationing
Talk and Action in Healthcare

Bill New (Edited by)

9780727911803, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 1 November 1997

265 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.544 kg

This unique publication, co-published with the King's Fund, is about talk and action in health care rationing. It presents the latest thinking and practical experience in rationing today. Read about why rationing is inevitable, look at what the public thinks, and decide for yourself what action should be taken in the future

Introduction and context: introduction, Bill New
The rationing agenda in the NHS, Bill New
Responses to the rationing agenda, Jo Lenaghan. Section 1 Talk: The inevitability of rationing in the NHS, Chris Heginbotham
Public opinion and rationing - a review of the evidence, Jack Kneeshaw. The rationing debate: Devising a package of health care services the NHS is responsible for - for, Bill New
against, Rudolph Kelin
Maximising the health of the whole community - for, A.J. Culyer
against, John Harris
Rationing health care by age - for, Alan Williams
against, J. Grimley Evans
Central government should have a greater role in rationing decisions - for, Jo Lenaghan
against, Stephen Harrison
Rationing within the NHS should be explicit - for, Len Doyal
against, Jo Coast
Direct public and patient involvement in rationing - the possibilities for direct public involvement, Anna Coote
- the possibilities for direct patient involvement, Heather Goodare
The moral limits to public and patient involvement, Len Doyal. Section 2 Action: New Zealand priority criteria project, Hadorn, Holmes
Setting priorities - can Britain learn from Sweden? McKee, Figueras
Setting priorities - is there a role for citizen's juries? Lenaghan et al
The Asbury draft policy on ethical use of resources, Crisp et al
Responses to Asbury proposal, Thomasma et al
A purchaser experience of managing new, expensive drugs - interferon beta, Rous et al
How can hospitals ration drugs? Bochner et al
responses to Boshner et al.

Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB]