Kiran Patel
Kiran Patel, chief medical officer, deputy CEO and consultant cardiologist at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire
CommentChanging who the NHS treats first will open a 'can of worms', but it is a debate we must have
We have, for too long, avoided opening the moral and ethical debates around equity of access to care. We must grasp this thorny debate and apply sophistication to how we tackle waiting lists if we really want to close the inequality gap instead of making a poor position even worse, ...