Regulatory Actions

Studies by C. Foster and co-authors describe new findings in regulatory actions

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 19th, 2007

Investigators publish new data in the report "Simple rationality' The law of healthcare resource allocation in England. This paper examines the law relating to healthcare resource allocation in U.K.. The National Health Service (NHS) Act 1977 does not impose an absolute duty to provide specified healthcare services," scientists in London, the United Kingdom report.

"The courts will only interfere with a resource allocation decision made by an NHS body if that decision is frankly irrational (or where the decision infringes the principle of proportionality when a right under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is engaged). Such irrationality is very difficult...

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