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Comprehensive, universal, and free -- Sowing financial seeds: the great investment -- Declaring the health harvest and concealing ruined crops -- Uprooting the traditional health fields -- Cultivation of local health services -- Choosing the method of cultivation: patient choice -- Alienating and spreading fear in the community -- Combing the landscape for a decision-maker -- Rushing into decisions and reaping the consequences -- Discarding the chaff: the shedding of NHS responsibilities -- The great hospital and health service clearout -- From hospital to homestead: the great go-between of intermediate care -- Thresholds and fending: erecting the social care barriers -- The uprooting of real care -- Suffolk health services: gathering storm over the land -- Rural conflagrations and early hostilities -- Setting the wheels in motion: the timetable of war -- The campaign in full flux -- Other fights in a changing landscape -- Decision-making day.