descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 10 Sep 1994 English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ, volume 309, pages 673-673 (issn: 0959-8138, eissn: 1468-5833,

Authors: N, Mays; K, Judge;

doi: 10.1136/bmj.309.6955.673b

pmid: 7802797

pmc: PMC2541505

Equity in health care

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EDITOR, - E S Williams and C M Scott comment on our review of some of the weaknesses of the current methods of allocating resources to NHS regions.1 They argue that the age-cost weights in the current formula assume, in their view wrongly, that all elderly people have the same health needs2 and that we should have made this point in our paper. While they present their argument in terms of the age-cost weights in the formula, their quibble seems to be with the subsequent needs …

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Health Care Rationing, Humans, State Medicine, United Kingdom

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