Who Should We Treat?: Rights, Rationing, and Resources in the NHS / Edition 2

by Christopher Newdick

Overview

The NHS has undergone substantial reform and investment since 1980, yet demand for care still exceeds supply and difficult choices remain between patients. Why is this so? On what basis should these decisions be made and by whom? As patients become 'consumers' of care, Who Should We Treat? puts patients' rights into their political, economic, and managerial perspectives to consider one of the most pressing problems in contemporary society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199264179
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/24/2005
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Christopher Newdick is a Barrister and the Reader in Health Law at the University of Reading. He is also an honorary consultant to Reading Primary Care Trust, and a member of the Berkshire Priorities Committee.

Table of Contents

1. Problems of Health Care Resources2. Principles of Resource Allocation3. Managing the Resource Allocation Process in the NHS4. Organization of the NHS5. Statutory Regulation of NHS Resource Allocation6. Medical Negligence7. Negligence of NHS Institutions8. Accountability and NHS Governance9. Private and Non-NHS Providers in the NHS10. Trusting the NHS

Editorial Reviews

Reviews from the previous edition:

"The book has a remarkably wide scope.... The book is replete with wise statements, always made with the utmost confidence and extensively footnoted...All sides could profit from reading this book, which helps remind us of some of the practical perils of too much attention to the bottom line."—New England Journal of Medicine

"The breadth of the text is to be praised and the tensions between the law, patients and resources in the NHS are well described. This book can be recommended to anyone interested in dealing with the practical challenges of rationing resources within the NHS.'"—Journal of Medical Ethics

"Richly illuminates the trade-offs among the central indcators of a cost-effective health service—access, equity, quality, choice and cost. ... written in a language that is accessible to the medical profession and to the lay public. It also has important observations for health law and ethics."—The Lancet

From the Publisher