'The New Politics of the NHS' is not a history of the NHS. It concentrates on those issues that seem best to illuminate the analytic themes and to provide the m

The New Politics of the NHS has become established over 30 years as the key overview of the NHS, its processes and paths of influence. The seventh edition remai

The principles and value framework of the postwar welfare consensus were called into question with the general election of 1979. This book assesses developments

Covers the development and political dynamics of the NHS from Atlee to Major. Includes case studies

Systematically updated throughout, the 6th edition of this leading text takes the story of health policy to the end of the Blair era and into the early years of