Rationing and rationality in the National Health Service
Subtitle: persistence of waiting lists
By: edited by Stephen Frankel and Robert West.
Contributors: Frankel, Stephen.; West, Robert, 1955-
Series: Economic Issuesin Health Care Series
Publisher: Macmillan Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Description: Analysis of the ways in which current means of rationing UK health care produce the least desirable outcome: the restriction of access to some of the most cost-effective treatments. The inevitability of rationing by waiting lists is questioned and described as an expression of the irrationality of a system that tolerates an excessive restriction of access to some of the few treatments which are both highly effective and relatively cheap.