title: Rationales for rationing health care in the NHS.
abstract: Rationing of health-care resources has moved from being a theoretical possibility to becoming a practical reality, a move that has been made more explicit since the introduction of a market-oriented approach to the management of the health service. The following two papers provide an introduction to the debate surrounding health-care rationing and make some suggestions on how the subject can be placed under more explicit democratic controls.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mangan
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom