Correspondence, mainly with representatives of Pitman Medical Publishing Company Limited, on the publication and sales of a new edition of JEP's book on the relationship between the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, A New Look at Medicine and Politics. Other correspondents include: representatives of Macdonald and Company (Publishers) Limited (3); representatives of Longman Group Limited (3); Simon Heffer, Assistant Editor of the Medical News Group (5); Robert Jackson (2); Christina Foyle, Director of W and G Foyle Limited, Booksellers, inviting JEP to a Foyle's Luncheon to launch the book (2).

Also includes: copy of the text; publisher's agreement; royalty statements; cuttings of reviews; draft typescript of JEP's new postscript to the revised edition; Department of Health and Social Security consultative document on the separation of private practice from National Health hospitals.