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NHS England policies
The NHS finite resources and it needs to make decisions to ensure the best possible outcome for all of the patients for whom it has commissioning responsibility.
Decisions must be made in a systematic, consistent and transparent way, with the aim of fairly and rationally distributing these resources across different patient groups, and across competing demands. Read more about this, the generic policies and the principles of its Ethical Framework at https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/