Opinion: With no guidance or PPE, doctors will have to make more unpopular choices about which lives to save

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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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