title: Dangerous yardstick? Early cost estimates and the politics of financial management in the first decade of the National Health Service.
authors.affiliation: School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX.
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cutler
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000266:history; D016527:Drug Costs / Q000266:history; D005376:Financial Management / Q000266:history*; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000266:history; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D017721:Hospital Costs / Q000266:history; D011057:Politics; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom