Title: Rationing and rationality in the National Health Service
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.
Subjects: Finance, National Health Service (Great Britain), Health services administration, Medical care, Medical ethics, Economic aspects, National health services, Public health, Health Services Accessibility, State Medicine, Waiting Lists, Santé publique, Administration, Politique sanitaire, Santé, services de