The government urgently needs to publish clear criteria so medics can carry out principled triage, writes David Lock and Vikram Sachdeva
lawfully rations access to healthcare because there is a limit to the ability of the NHS to deliver a service to meet every clinical need. Parents seeking to conceive via IVF are well aware of these constraints, as are oncology patients who may be denied expensive life-extending drugs, or patients with rare diseases where the cost of treatment is prohibitive.
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