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| NICE Citizens Council report on age | | Corporate Author | Citizens Council, National Institute for Clinical Excellence - NICE |
| Publisher | Electronic format, 21 January 2004 |
| Pages | 35 pp |
| Source | Downloaded (28.4.04): www.nice.org.uk |
| Keywords | National Health Service ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The Citizens Council of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) reflects its views about whether there are circumstances in which the age of a person should be taken into account when NICE makes a decision about how treatments should be used in the National Health Service (NHS). When NICE is deciding what constitutes value for money for the NHS, and when age is an indicator of likely risk, most of the members think that age differentiation when considering cost effectiveness is legitimate, indeed vital in some instances. Most think that NICE should be more generous to some age groups rather than others, if certain age groups are more likely to benefit from a treatment. On the other hand, most do not think that NICE should be more generous to some age groups rather than others on the basis of social roles that people have at different ages. Lastly, most do not think that NICE should be more generous in their definition of what constitutes value for money for some age groups rather than others based on how much chance people have had to experience life due to their age. Appendices list the members of the Citizens Council, and outline how it operates and informs its discussions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040504228 E |
| Classmark | L4: TOB: TM2 * |
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