Career
The Institute produced numerous books and reports for the Department of Health which explored issues with the use and perception of primary medical care in Britain. One report (Medicine Takers, Prescribers & Hoarders, 1972) was written with Karen Dunnell, now the United Kingdom"s National Statistician. Others included Patients & Their Doctors (1967), Parent & Family Planning Services (1970), Life Before Death (1973, with Hockey & Anderson and The Role of Residential and Nursing Homes in the Last Year of People"s Lives (1988). she also made the scrip Fault
Cartwright retired in 1993 and the Institute was subsequently disbanded.