Julian Tudor Hart is respected worldwide for his analytical approach to population and community epidemiology and his passion for the NHS. Both these attributes are in full view in his latest book, The Political Economy of Health Care. Those who know Dr Hart only through his writing and lecturing may not truly appreciate that his words come from 30 years of caring for a community — patients with names, faces, and stories — in one of the most challenging practice locations in the NHS. His work is not theoretical but ‘evidence based’, with his and his health centre's experience in a South Wales mining valley as both the source for and application of that evidence. I know since, 26 years ago, I spent 9 months as an assistant in general practice with him in Glyncorrwg.
Organisationally, The Political Economy of Health Care is two books. The …
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