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A Healthcare Planner's Conscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Donald Evans
Donald Evans
Affiliation:
Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Health Care, University College of Swansea, Swansea, United Kingdom
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Across the world, healthcare providers must wrestle with the twin ogres of finite resources and infinite demand. Successful healthcare delivery creates its own legacy of need. For example, a renal failure patient may now be given a greatly extended life by means of dialysis or organ transplantation. In the process, the healthcare provider has created a permanent demand for services during that extended life. It has been estimated that the recurrent cost of maintaining a patient on hemodialysis for 1 year in the United Kingdom is in the region of £20,000.

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994 , pp. 108 - 114
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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1. Evans, D, Evans, M, Greaves, D. Adding life to years: problems in planning health gain. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 34(4).Google Scholar