Rationing health care: is it time to set out more clearly what is funded by the NHS?

Rationing health care: is it time to set out more clearly what is funded by the NHS?:

This report examines both the feasibility, and the advantages and disadvantages, of setting out explicitly the care patients are entitled to, in the form of a nationally specified NHS ‘benefits package’. It draws on the experience of countries that have sought to explicitly define the health care benefits that their publicly-funded health systems will pay for. It outlines the current system in which decisions for determining which treatments are funded by the NHS are arrived at implicitly and makes several recommendations for how the system could be improved.

• Report
• Nuffield Trust - publications