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ArticleHealth care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy2006

Fair rationing is essentially local: an argument for postcode prescribing.

Richard E Ashcroft

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Article in Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Why Bariatric surgery should be given high priority: an argument from law and morality.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2014
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Richard E AshcroftUniversity of London, Institute of Health Sciences Education, 40 New Road, London El 2AX, United Kingdom. r.ashcroft@qmul.ac.uk

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper I argue that resource allocation in publicly funded medical systems cannot be done using a purely substantive theory of justice, but must also involve procedural justice. I argue further that procedural justice requires institutions and that these must be "local" in a specific sense which I define. The argument rests on the informational constraints on any non-market method for allocating scarce resources among competing claims of need. However, I resist the identification of this normative account of local justice with the actual approach to local decision-making taken within the UK National Health Service. I illustrate my argument with reference to the case of provision of In Vitro Fertilisation within the UK NHS.

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Community MedicineEthical TheoryEthics, MedicalFertilization in VitroHealth Care RationingHumansResource AllocationState MedicineUnited Kingdom

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