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Ethics and values for commissioners — a report by the Yorkshire Collaborating Centre for Health Services Research
Author(s)	Heather Draper, Kate Tunna
Corporate Author	Yorkshire Collaborating Centre for Health Services Research, Nuffield Institute for Health
Publisher	Nuffield Institute for Health, Leeds, 1996
Pages	66 pp
Source	University of Leeds, Nuffield Institute for Health, 71-75 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9PL.
Keywords	Grant allocation ; Health services ; Social ethics ; Bibliographies.
Annotation	This report explains the ethical arguments around the key principles of justice (equity), beneficence, non-maleficence, and autonomy, and suggests how these might affect commissioning decision-making. The authors suggest a framework which they believe could enable commissioners to act ethically. This is examined in terms of effectiveness - of evidence-based medicine (EBM), and measuring outcome as opposed to process by "quality adjusted life years" (QALY). They also propose a new way of initiating conditional purchasing, which may be regarded as controversial, and therefore requires further research. The report concludes with a detailed annotated bibliography.
Accession Number	CPA-970708218 B
Classmark	QCG: L: TQ: 63
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