1     The 1990 GP Contract in context

Introduction

1911 National Insurance Act

The Beveridge Report 1942

The coalition government

Bevan and the 1946 Act

The 1966 Contract

GPs and other doctors

The impact of the Labour government

Cooperation between GP representatives and the Civil Service

What was achieved

The 1990 Contract

The government's intentions

The politicians and their advisers

The Treasury

The Department of Health

The profession and other doctors

The 1990 Contract: defeat or victory in battle or war?

The future

References

Acknowledgement

John Eversley

Senior Research Fellow in the Public Policy Research Unit, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

Book Title: Making Sense of The Red Book