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Needs, supply and demand for health care by elderly people in the NHS

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2003

NJ Vetter
NJ Vetter
Affiliation:
University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK.
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Extract

It is often said that the demand for health care is growing inexorably in the UK, so that the NHS is constantly struggling to keep up. The dilemma was most famously put by Enoch Powell, who said that any health service faces the problem of infinite demand meeting finite resources. This was an economist's view, which suggests that anything that is free will be demanded infinitely.

Type
Psychological and Social Gerontology
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , November 2002 , pp. 375 - 380
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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