Who Should We Treat?Rights, Rationing, and Resources in the NHS

book
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199264186.001.0001

Abstract

How should we allocate NHS resources between different patients and treatments? Increasingly, patients are regarded as “consumers” of medical services, and yet demand for medical care exceeds the resources that are made available for it. How should the NHS manage the dilemmas presented by scarce resources? This book examines the economic, political, and legal environment of patients' rights in the NHS.

Keywords

NHS RESOURCES
PATIENTS
TREATMENTS
CONSUMERS
MEDICAL SERVICES
MEDICAL CARE
PATIENTS' RIGHTS

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