Journal of Medical Ethics (JME)Product/Service
"The Compassionate Use Advisory Committee (CompAC), a collaboration between NYU School of Medicine’s Division of Medical Ethics and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, is a new approach to allocating investigational drugs. CompAC offered a new alternative to traditional methods for scarce resource allocation. Instead of making decisions according to a random lottery system or on a first-come, first-served basis, the committee crafted a set of principles to guide deliberations. "
https://blogs.bmj.com/…/a-novel-approach-to-compassionate-…/
Access to secondary care (hospital) services in the UK has been made harder by the introduction of strict regulations, prompting vociferous objections from doctors. However, everybody, regardless of immigration status or housing, is entitled to access primary care (general practice) free of charge (although the government has hinted at plans to introduce charges in the future). In this post we suggest that policies ostensibly intended to restrict access to secondary care may create barriers to accessing primary care by confusing patients about their eligibility and confusing professionals about who they ought to be treating.
By Rose Glennerster and Nathan Hodson
https://blogs.bmj.com/…/access-to-primary-care-in-a-hostil…/
