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Subject: Date for your diaries: 'Topup' payments in the NHS
Apologies for cross posting. Please find enclosed details of an event
we're
organising in September.
Thanks.
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Date for your diaries:
Friday 18th September, 1200 - 1600.
The Applied Health Economics Group and London School of Economics
present:
"Top Ups" in the NHS: a necessary evil?
In November 2008, Prof Mike Richards reported the results of his review
to "examine if, when and in what circumstances patients should be able
to
purchase additional drugs that are not funded by the NHS".
DH guidance published March 2009 clarified that no patient should have
their
NHS care withdrawn if they choose to buy additional private care, but
that
such care must be delivered separately from NHS care.
Is this an affront to the founding principle of the NHS of access based
on
need not ability to pay? Or is it churlish (and indeed unethical) to
deny a
patient a drug that could extend their life, even by a matter of only
weeks,
when they are willing to pay for it?
This event will clarify the law surrounding so-called 'top-up' payments
both
before and after the Richards review, and explore the issues and the
practical
impact of the policy on the NHS, patients and industry. The afternoon
will
finish with a debate "This house believes top-up payments in the NHS are
a
necessary evil", with each side argued by a leading academic health
economist.
Friday 18th September 2009, 1300-1600, London School of Economics
Lunch from 1200.
More details to follow or please email [log in to unmask]
The Applied Health Economics Group meets twice a year, in London & York,
and is a forum for NHS staff and academics to discuss topical issues in
health
economics of relevance to the NHS. For more information on AHEG please
contact Richard Little, [log in to unmask]
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Ed Wilson
Lecturer in Health Economics
Health Economics Group
Faculty of Health
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
Tel: +44 1603 591444
Fax: +44 1603 593752
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~wm096
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