1st Edition
Patients, the Public and Priorities in Healthcare
208 Pages
by
CRC Press
208 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Sharing the costs of ill health is the mark of a civilised society. However, every society has limited healthcare resources, and must therefore make finely balanced decisions on how best to allocate them. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been responsible for the UK's health resource allocation for a decade. To inform its decisions, a Citizens Council of 30... Read more
Figures and tables. List of contributors. Glossary. Preface. Foreword. 1. The establishment of NICE. 2. NICE’s commitment to patient, carer and public involvement. 3. Patient and carer involvement in NICE clinical guidelines. 4. Patient involvement in NICE technology appraisals. 5. From patient involvement in clinical guidance to lay involvement in public health guidance. 6. Patient involvement in NICE interventional procedures. 7. Patient and voluntary organisation support for implementing NICE. Guidance. 8. Community engagement to improve health — how well is NICE implementing its own recommendations? 9. Background to NICE’s Citizens Council. 10. Ordinary people, extraordinary wisdom. 11. The Citizens Council reports. 12. Social value judgements: implementing the Citizens Council report. 13. The view of a Citizens Council member. 14. A Citizens Council in the making — dilemmas for citizens and their hosts. 15. Accountability for reasonableness and the Citizens Council. 16. Engaging the American public in setting healthcare priorities. 17. Harvesting and publishing patients’ unanswered questions about the effects of treatments. 18. The future of patient and public involvement: some concluding thoughts.
Biography
Peter Littlejohns, Michael Rawlins
