Suggested reading
Butler J. The Ethics of Health Care Rationing: Principles and Practices. Cassell. 1999.
Bradley P and Burls A. (eds.) Ethics in Public and Community Health. Routledge. 2000
Hope T, Savulescu J and Hendrick J. Medical Ethics and Law. The Core Curriculum. Churchill Livingstone. 2003
Oliver A, Healey A and Le Grand J. Addressing health inequalities, The Lancet 2002; 360:565-567.
Richards C, Dingwall R, Watson A. Should NHS patients be allowed to contribute extra money to their care? BMJ 2001; 323:563-565
Newdick C. Who Should We Treat? Law, Rights, Rationing and Resources in the NHS. Oxford University Press.2005
Crisp R, Hope T and Ebbs D. Rationing in general practice: the Asbury draft policy on ethical use of resources. BMJ 1996; 312:1528-1531
Weinstein MC. Should physicians be gatekeepers of medical resources? J Med Ethics 2001; 27:268-274
Davies G. Medical treatment abroad. New Law Journal 2003; 938
Rivlin M. Should rationing of health care be explicit? Bulletin of Medical Ethics 2002; 20
Rice T. Individual autonomy and state involvement in health care. J Med Ethics 2001; 27:240-244
Lockwood M, Quality of life and resource allocation, in Bell JM. and Mendus S. (eds) Philosophy and Medical Welfare Cambridge University Press, 1988
Parker M and Dickenson D. The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook, case studies, commentaries and activities. Cambridge University Press 2001
Samuels A. Right to medical treatment and the defence of lack of resources. Medical Litigation 2002; 12
O'Sullivan D. The allocation of scarce resources and the right to life under the European Convention on Human Rights. Public law 1998; 389
Wright O. Action to stop postcode lottery for cancer drugs. Times, October 28, 2003.
British Medical Journal, Editorial. Why the Human Rights Act matters to doctors. BMJ 2000; 321: 780 - 781
Griffiths S, Reynolds J and Hope T., Priority setting in practice, chapter 18 in Coulter A and Ham C. (eds) The Global Challenge of Health Care Rationing, Open University Press 2000.
Hope T, Hicks N, Reynolds DJM, Crisp R and Griffiths S, Rationing and the health authority. BMJ, 1998; 317: 1067-1069
Forum. How to set priorities in health care. The Pharmaceutical Journal 2001: 266; 34-335