The Centre for Bioethics and Emerging Technologies (CBET)
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Healthcare Allocation Consultation
Introduction
The issue of resource allocation is one that affects everyone working in healthcare and everyone who receives healthcare. CBET is currently engaged in a project to bring to this problem some of the resources of the Catholic tradition with the aim of supporting those working in the NHS and enlightening those who use its services.
The project is outlined in this document, and we have initiated a consultation process in order to receive feedback from stakeholders. Any help you can give to enhance this project will be gratefully received.
Consultation Document
The aim of the document is to support professionals working in healthcare, especially those in leadership roles, to draw upon the resources of Catholic social teaching and ethics to help facilitate better decision-making in the area of resource allocation.
The current draft has been produced by Paul Gately, Fr Ashley Beck and Prof David Albert Jones, with additional comments from Dr Pia Matthews and Dr Stephen Bullivant. The project has benefited from a number of meetings and interviews with professionals including Dr William Moyes, Jim McManus, Elizabeth Butler, Dr Thomas Mann, Dr Neil Wier, Jolyon Vickers, Fr Nigel Griffin and Helen Booth.
It draws on work that others have done before and especially that of Bishop Anthony Fisher and Prof Luke Gormally. We are grateful for the help of these and others in this process, though they have not been directly involved with the drafting and are not responsible for any weaknesses or omissions in the booklet.
Giving Feedback
Link to Healthcare Allocation Consultation document (PDF File)
The document is in three sections:
- Section 1 sets out the problem of healthcare allocation in the context of the United Kingdom and draws attention to some particular concerns.
- Section 2 sets out some intellectual resources for addressing this problem: the key principles of Catholic social teaching.
- Section 3 applies these resources to this problem.
It is written to make sense as a whole but the sections are also designed to stand in their own right and so can be read separately.
This is a draft for consultation and to make it easy to respond each paragraph has been numbered (though these numbers will not be included in the final booklet). Comments are welcome on the booklet as a whole and on each part of it:
- Is the scope and format of the document helpful?
- Do the different styles of the different sections work?
- Has the document got its facts right? its theology right? its ethical analysis right? If not, how should it be corrected?
- Are there areas or questions that should be covered or things that should be omitted?
The deadline for submission is 1st September 2010
Submissions should be sent to cbet@smuc.ac.uk or posted to:
Dr Stephen Bullivant
School of Theology, Philosophy, and History
St Mary’s University College
Waldegrave Road
Twickenham
TW1 4SX
