This paper describes a simulation-based project to help North Mersey Community National Health Service Trust to design and plan the operation of a NHS Walk-in Centre. The simulation model developed of this multi-service facility was used to facilitate managers and health professionals to recognize existing problems and potential future problems, and to investigate ideas for their 'solution'. In the fast-moving NHS where initiatives to improve access, such as walk-in centres, are a recent development and where no two centres are the same, ideas for best practice borrowed from elsewhere can be quickly tested for suitability in the local situation.

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The fact that London was parliamentarian rather than royalist was one of the principal reasons for the defeat of Charles I in the English Civil War. This book reinterprets London's role. It examines the relation of the municipality and of the City fathers as business magnates with both of the early Stuart kings and their parliaments, and explores the business connections of the City with the royal court, concluding that, far from being the natural allies of the king and court as is generally assumed, the City elite had mostly been seriously alienated from them by 1640. Professor Ashton offers an interpretation not only of the City's role in the years before 1640 but also of the reasons lying behind its support for parliament in 1642. It is both a contribution to the debate on the origins of the Civil War and a study in depth of the connection between big business and politics in early Stuart England.

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