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This debate pertains to the proposition that health services should not provide lifelong follow-on services for young adult cancer sufferers. Considering the health benefit, resources can be efficiently allocated by measuring cancer mortality in individuals under 75. Key concepts include the Rule of Rescue, Utility, Marginal Utility, and Incremental Benefit. Factors influencing cancer mortality, such as smoking, treatments, screening, early diagnosis, and lifestyle, highlight the need for effective resource management. Despite significant health inequalities, available resources like the NHS fundings in Bristol emphasize the necessity of strategic allocation to maximize health benefits and address widening gaps in healthcare provision.
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DEBATE Proposition – the health service should not provide follow on services for life for TYA cancer sufferers
Health Benefit • Deploy resources to provide health benefit • Measure: Cancer Mortality under 75’s CONCEPTS • Rule of Rescue • Utility • Marginal Utility / Incremental Benefit
Cancer Mortality • The main influences on cancer mortality: • Smoking • New treatments • Screening • Early diagnosis • Nutrition and physical activity Significant health inequalities exist and gap is widening….
Available Resources • NHS has approx £1,400 per person in the UK to spend • NHS Bristol spends around £8.6 million per 100,000 people on cancer • Since 1993 the mortality rate in the under 75s has fallen by about 20%.
