Accessing NHS Services |
The Patients Association is conducting a report into the negative effects of rationing on the patient experience. Unprecedented financial pressures on the NHS mean it is inevitable that some NHS organisations will be forced to restrict access to certain services or dilute quality of care as they seek to cut their spending budgets. As a result, the NHS is having to ration access to more and more types of care in order to try to balance its books, even when doing so includes treatments with high success rates and has a negative effect on patients.