This book makes the case for 'ordinary' people to get the health and social care which the state has promised them for over 60 years but which has not been delivered

John Spiers, Philip Booth, Neil Russel

Contents Includes: Why choice? Two concepts of order. Six policy recommendations. The present reforms 'coherent and right'? What are politicians for? Cancer and "the efficiency myth". The 'choice agenda' and the problem of knowledge. Between the data and the deep blue sea. Coercion, contagion, learning, coaching. My body, but your decision? 'Concordat', and shared decision-making. Culture, kultur, and permission to change.