Alan Maynard obituary

Health economist who had a major impact on policy and practiceAlan Maynard, emeritus professor of health economics at the University of York, who has died aged 73, was crucial in the development of his discipline into an international profession. He also had a real impact on policy, not just in the UK.He was, for example, an originator of the idea that better value for money and better outcomes might be achieved if family doctors were given budgets with which to buy their patients’ care. H