NHS will have to ration further treatments, GPs warn

NHS will have to ration further treatments, GPs warn: Rising demand, new treatments and flat budgets reopen debate on government guidelines over what services will be restricted The NHS is facing such acute financial pressure that it will have to extend the rationing of treatments in order to cope, GPs warn.An overwhelming majority of family doctors believes that the NHS is under such strain that ministers will have to undertake the politically difficult task of redefining what it can, and cannot, afford to provide. Rising demand for healthcare, the ...