(Ebook) Who Should We Treat? Rights, Rationing, and Resources in the NHS by Christopher Newdick ISBN 9780199264179, 9780199264186, 0199264171, 019926418X

(Ebook) Who Should We Treat? Rights, Rationing, and Resources in the NHS by Christopher Newdick ISBN 9780199264179, 9780199264186, 0199264171, 019926418X

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? Who Should We Treat? examines the economic, political, and legal environment of patients’ rights in the NHS. Considers immensely topical issues such as the treatment of the elderly and the terminally ill, and healthcare rationing Considers patients’ rights to care in the political, economic, and managerial context of NHS treatment Tells the fascinating story of how the NHS has attempted to answer a question that has baffled policy-makers since 1948 Written in an accessible style for students of medicine, NHS management, and health law and interested lay-readers by an academic specialist with practical knowledge of the NHS New to this Edition: This edition is substantially re-written. It discusses the implications of the Bristol Inquiry and the conviction of Harold Shipman which have helped to re-draw the landscape of the NHS Discusses how markets and incentive schemes have become endemic to the NHS and the new regulators that have been created to monitor and control doctors and NHS managers Traces the recent successes of patients in promoting their rights to health care