We cant avoid these difficult questions about how to fairly allocate scarce resources by pretending we can instead just increase spending: no matter how much we do that, we will always want more from the NHS than it can provide (3/4) >>

The “big conversation” ministers plan around the NHS 10 year plan urgently needs to involve wide public involvement in setting out the values that should apply when prioritising resources and how competing values should be balanced. A blog from me here www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/he... (4/4)

Health care prioritisation: no easy answers but plenty of difficult questions

Following a speech this week by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sally Gainsbury reflects on how there are no easy answers to questions about prioritising scarce health care resource...