The Modern Doctor's Dilemma: Rationing and Ethics in Healthcare

From one point of view, to talk about rationing and ethics is engage in subversion, for in the eyes of the UK there is no such thing as rationing in. The Prime Minister has committed his to providing healthcare of a nationally attested wherever and whenever it is needed, and ministers held unswervingly to the line that rationing is neither nor practised in the National Health Service1. insist that the NHS is still committed to providing is still providing-a comprehensive range of services the cradle to the grave. Rationing from this very standpoint would mean the total removal of services from the menu of availability through the, and this, ministers claim, is simply not happening.