"I will not have my health policies dictated by some punk professor from York." Whether the then health secretary, Ken Clarke, actually used the words, they proved prophetic. Many key NHS policies of the 1990s and 2000s were indeed inspired-if not dictated-by Alan Maynard, through his razor sharp wit and inimitable maverick style of communication. Appointed as a lecturer to the University of York in 1971, Alan led the way in health economics and health policy for the best part of half a century, creating York's MSc in health economics, founding the Centre for Health Economics, and launching the journal, Health Economics.
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