Ian Greener is a Lecturer in Management Studies at the University of York. He has written widely about health policy and organisation in the UK.

'...a very welcome addition to the range of thorough research that is now building around health care policy, organisation and management...This is the book I have been waiting for.' Sociology of Health and Illness

• 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.

Ian Greener is a Lecturer in Management Studies at the University of York. He has written widely about health policy and organisation in the UK.

'...a very welcome addition to the range of thorough research that is now building around health care policy, organisation and management...This is the book I have been waiting for.' Sociology of Health and Illness

• 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.

Ian Greener is a Lecturer in Management Studies at the University of York. He has written widely about health policy and organisation in the UK.

'...a very welcome addition to the range of thorough research that is now building around health care policy, organisation and management...This is the book I have been waiting for.' Sociology of Health and Illness

• 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.