ABSTRACT
Prioritisation or rationing of health services is on government agendas across the world; different countries have adopted different approaches, ranging from policies of rationing by exclusion of specified treatments to rationing by guidelines (Citizen’s Committee on Biomedical Ethics (New Jersey) 1988; National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) 1990; Oregon Health Services Commission 1991; Honigsbaum et al. 1995).
