Rationing in the NHS

"Our second policy briefing in the run up to the General Election 2015 provides an overview of the current difficulties in making decisions about rationing healthcare in England, and sets out some of the challenges faced by policy makers in the future. "

Rationing in the NHS
N Edwards, H Crump, M Dayan
Nuffield Trust
February 2015

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Challenges in health care financing and provision

The Nordic Economic Policy review has produced a special issue about challenges in health care financing and provision. Articles include:

• Ageing populations: more care or just later care?
• Lifestyle, health and costs - what does available evidence suggest?
• The economics of long-term care: a survey
• The role of primary health care in controlling the cost of specialist health care
• Payments in support of effective primary care for chronic conditions
• An economic assessment of price rationing versus non-price rationing of health care
• Should pharmaceutical costs be curbed?
• Productivity differences in Nordic hospitals: Can we learn from Finland?

Access the full issue here.

Access all ages: assessing the impact of age on access to surgical treatment

"Where there are allegations of rationing of interventions according to age, as opposed to clinical need and potential benefit, these should be investigated by the commissioners of that service and escalated to the NHS Commissioning Board where appropriate."

Access all ages: assessing the impact of age on access to surgical treatment
Royal College of Surgeons of England
October 2012

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Thinking about rationing

"The aim of this discussion paper is to give the reader an understanding of the issues involved in rationing in the evolving context of the contemporary NHS in England."

Thinking about rationing
R Klein, J Maybin
The King's Fund
May 2012

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Rationing health care

"The report therefore makes a number of recommendations for changes that could be made to improve the way the NHS benefits package is shaped, without going as far as specifying a national set of NHS-funded services."

Rationing health care
B Rumbold, V Alakeson, PC Smith
Nuffield Trust
February 2012

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