title: Priority setting in purchasing.
abstract: The NHS cannot deliver full comprehensive health care to all the population. In this article the need to define a range of basic health services is emphasized. Agreement on priorities requires ethical, economic and clinical debate.
authors.affiliation: North Essex Health Consortium, Witham, Essex.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carroll
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D012040:Regional Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012945:Social Values; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom; D028761:Withholding Treatment