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Rationing in child health services: a personal view
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Rationing in the UK National Health Service comes in many forms: there is choosing not to see something as a relative health problem in the first place; there are simple straight decisions not to fund treatments, investigations, preventive measures, etc because of lack of resources at that particular time; there is rationing by reasonable methods of priority setting at national and district level. There are also more insidious methods of delaying the implementation of treatments of proved efficacy that, on balance of evidence, should be used. Such delays are done by reassessing, demanding more information, claiming that it is someone else's responsibility, etc. There is also rationing by waiting lists and rationing by illogical resource allocation on the grounds of political expediency.
As a commissioner, while I am aware of these facts I am also aware that
the NHS, compared with other health delivery systems used around the
world, supplies
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