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Rationing health care by age — the case for [and] the case against
Author(s)	Alan Williams, J Grimley Evans
Journal title	British Medical Journal, vol 314, no 7083, 15 March 1997
Pages	pp 820-825 (The rationing debate)
Keywords	National Health Service ; Grant allocation ; Attitudes to the old of general public.
Annotation	This pair of articles discusses the appropriateness of age as a criterion for choosing who could benefit from health care and be offered it. Alan Williams, approaching the age of 70, hopes that members of his generation will exercise restraint in demands made on the health care system. We should not object to age being one of the criteria - though not the only one - used in prioritising health care, even if to the disadvantage of older people. J Grimley Evans argues that age discrimination in the NHS occurs despite government statements that withholding treatment on the basis of age is not acceptable.
Accession Number	CPA-970530010 A
Classmark	L4: QCG: TOB
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