Looking back and moving forward: On the application of proportional shortfall in healthcare priority setting in the Netherlands

The demand for healthcare is rapidly increasing for reasons that include ageing populations and the availability of increasingly advanced and expensive (new) health technologies. As healthcare resources remain scarce, the resulting pressure on available budgets renders healthcare priority setting inevitable [1,2]. Although politically and societally sensitive, the need for prioritisation is widely recognised and explicitly addressing priority setting has become indispensable for developing fairer methods for resource allocation in healthcare [3,4].
Source: Health Policy - Category: Health Management Authors: Source Type: research