ABSTRACT
This book is about how analysts in the UK Department of Health (DH) helped to find and define such problems and to suggest solutions over the period 1 9842 002 .
More precisely, the book has three main purposes:
l to provide a history of selected analytical issues in healthcare over the last 20 years, and the role of Department of Health (DH) analysts in addressing those issues .*
2 to distil lessons from that history and experience in the hope that they may be of encouragement, interest or value to future health service analysts, particu larly those thinking of working in the public sector
3 in passing, to provide a personal commentary on some of the more important analytical issues in healthcare.
