Nagendran Myura, Budhdeo Sanjay, Maruthappu Mahiben, Sugand Kapil
University of Cambridge, UK.
Philos Ethics Humanit Med. 2010 May 11;5:7. doi: 10.1186/1747-5341-5-7.
The Varsity Medical Debate, between Oxford and Cambridge Universities, brings together practitioners and the public, professors, pupils and members of the polis, to facilitate discussion about ethics and policy within healthcare. The motion on privatizing the National Health Service (NHS) was specifically chosen to reflect the growing sentiment in the UK where further discourse upon models of healthcare was required. Time and again, the outcome of British elections pivots upon the topic of financial sustainability of the NHS. Having recently celebrated its sixtieth anniversary, the NHS has become heavily politicized in recent months, especially in the aftermath of the devastating global recession.
牛津大学与剑桥大学之间的大学医学辩论会，汇聚了从业者与公众、教授、学生以及政治界人士，以促进关于医疗保健领域伦理与政策的讨论。将国民保健制度（NHS）私有化这一议题被特意挑选出来，以反映英国日益增长的一种情绪，即需要就医疗保健模式展开进一步讨论。英国选举的结果一次又一次地取决于国民保健制度财务可持续性这一话题。国民保健制度最近庆祝了其成立六十周年，近几个月来已变得高度政治化，尤其是在全球经济大衰退造成严重破坏之后。
