The NHS is starting to make unfair and inappropriate decisions on rationing healthcare in England due to growing financial pressures on the health service, according to a leading health think tank.
The Nuffield Trust has today published a briefing paper Rationing in the NHS aimed at current and prospective MPs in which it warns that there is a growing lack of legitimacy in the way many rationing decisions are being made.
A Nuffield Trust survey of 100 health and social care leaders, also published today, has found that more than a third of respondents feel the current approach to rationing healthcare is unfair and 7 in 10 want the Cancer Drugs Fund to be wound up.
Full story in On Medica 19 February 2015