Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the very many people whose efforts have made a survey on this scale possible, including everyone who stuffed envelopes, delivered surveys or helped to analyse the results. In particular I would like to thank Mark Poarch for helping to design the survey and for masterminding its distribution and analysis. I would also like to thank the many thousands of Northavon residents who took the time to give me their views on the future of their local health services.