ABSTRACT
In this concluding chapter, as commissioning editors we have taken it upon ourselves to provide some overall reflections on the chapters in this volume. Necessarily, this takes us at times into the realm of future policy. We emphasise, however (see Preface), that the chapters were commissioned primarily to assist the Coulsfield Committee, which has (gratifyingly) taken them very seriously in developing its own conclusions and policy proposals. This chapter is in no sense a substitute for the Coulsfield Committee report, which we would urge all our readers to study closely. Rather, we have tried to write a ‘stand-alone’ chapter that, as our title suggests, seeks to pull together some of the threads of the preceding chapters, to provide a fitting conclusion to this book.
