Conservatism and the cancer drugs fund

BMJ

24 May 2017 - Are some patients—and some people— more deserving than others?

Decisions about healthcare inevitably involve the allocation of finite resources. Democracy, if it is meaningful, is public reasoning.

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), established by Frank Dobson in 1999, though imperfect, represents a worthy attempt to conduct a reasoned assessment of what a health service should provide.

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