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Sky news focuses on the NHS

Geoff Riley

14th September 2008

I usually have Sky news running in the background and this week their newsroom has been running a series of reports on the condition of the National Health Service and the financial pressures facing state health care in a world of ever-changing health needs and wants, the emergence of new treatments and the daily inevitability of health care rationing. Many of the features are ideal for those using health care as a case study in scarcity, resource allocation, cost benefit analysis, positive and normative economics and market demand and supply of health services. Here is the main link Among the articles and videos is an emotional one with the darts legend Andy Fordham, who is battling to have a liver operation.

Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.

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