The UK Health Trainer initiative: Critical Contexts.

It has never been a more exciting time to study the health policy cycle (design, implementation and evaluation) and there have never been more secondary resources at the researcher’s disposal, for example - data, theory and opinion. This makes for a more engaging and multi-faceted exploration though it can feel a little daunting. Focusing analysis on the contents of policies alone may seem to remove some of this complexity but it can leave the researcher with an irreconcilable set of aims, agendas and results, and a limited understanding of an issue. Policies are constructed within contested local, national and elite domains, and health is no exception.