1st Edition

Healthcare Resource Allocation, Older Patients and the Law

By Yvoni Komodromou Copyright 2027
268 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

With a rising level of health needs and increasing life expectancy, the way in which healthcare systems allocate resources within budgetary constraints has led to setting limits on healthcare entitlements. These calls for limit-setting feature arguments for age-based rationing, which have gained increasing significance. Taking the English NHS as a case study, this book puts forward a novel... Read more

1. Introduction; 2. A Three-Dimensional Approach to Justice: Redistribution, Procedural Justice, and Recognition; 3. Justice in Planning the Commissioning of Healthcare Services for Older Patients: Equality Principles; 4. Evaluation of Commissioning Practices in Implementing the Public Sector Equality: Duty: General Operational Plans; 5. Justice in Commissioning Healthcare Services for Older Patients: Elements of Commissioning; 6. Evaluation of Commissioning Practices in Implementing the Elements of Commissioning: Dementia Care; 7. Justice in Reviewing Healthcare Resource Allocation Decisions for Older Patients: Judicial Review Perspective; 8. Evaluation of Commissioning Practices in Implementing the Factors in Reviewing Commissioning Decisions: Breast Cancer Care; 9. The Resource Allocation Guide and Integrated Care Boards; 10. Conclusion: Consolidating the Stages of Commissioning to Create a Healthcare Resource Allocation Guide;

Biography

Yvoni Komodromou is a Lecturer in Law at London Metropolitan University, UK.