Healthcare in the UK: Understanding continuity and change

Contents: Theory, history and health policy, and organisation The creation of the NHS The 1950s: 'golden age' or the NHS under threat? The 1960s and the changing balance of professional power Reforming healthcare in the 1960s and the 1970s The political economy and changing ideology of healthcare policy in the 1970s The internal market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, Continuous revolution? Health policy under New Labour Long-range explanations of health policy change Future directions and conclusion.