Trekking the Globe with Mostly Gentle Footsteps

Introduction; Sources for courses; Vignettes & visions; Why choice? Two concepts of order; Language, & smuggled goods; The ticking clock: six policy recommendations; The seven uninvited guests: 'markets', 'risk', 'competition', 'customer', 'profit', 'price' & 'demand'; The present reforms: 'coherent & right'?; Compare & contrast: performance, probable or actual?; What are politicians for?; Cancer & 'the efficiency myth'; The 'choice agenda' & the problem of knowledge; 'When the axe came into the forest ...'; Will 'a new localism' answer?; Will giving power back to the doctors answer?; The messages of the aesthetic environment; Between the data & the deep blue sea; 'Coercion, contagion, learning, coaching'; Are you being personal, or what?; To see the statue in the marble; The picture in the frame; World-class commissioning? 'Thanks, but no thanks. I think I will go round the corner'; My body, but your decision? 'Concordat', & shared decision making; How many fingers make five? Culture, kultur, & permission to change; Postscript: Dazzled by Darzi?; Index.