Rationing and rationality in the National Health Service : the persistence of waiting lists
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Rationing and rationality in the National Health Service : the persistence of waiting lists
（Economic issues in health care）
Macmillan Press, 1993
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 132-148
Includes index
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Description
This book offers an analysis of the ways in which current means of rationing health care in Britain produce the least desirable outcome: The restriction of access to some of the most cost effective treatments. The problems of gaining access to non-urgent surgical treatments have beset the NHS from its beginning, and the existence of waiting lists is assumed to be the inevitable feature of the overwhelming demand for healthcare. Frankel and West's book examines the necessity of such waiting lists and considers the system which perpetuates them in its wider historical and political context.
Table of Contents
Origins of Waiting Lists - Waiting Lists and Health Policy - Joining the Queue: Demand and Decision-Making - Opening the Gate: Referrals from Primary to Secondary Care - Entering the Lobby: Access to Outpatient Assessment - And So to Bed: Access to Inpatient Services - What is to be Done? - Bibliography - Index
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