The ageing population and growth in chronic conditions, things like heart disease and dementia, means the health service has found itself having to manage patients rather than cure them.

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Imagine a world with unlimited food, water, and energy in which we prevent disease rather than cure it and in which our lifespans increase along with our wisdom and knowledge.

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Against that, Mr Christie and his team say that they are setting out a mid-term vision of an entirely different culture in public provision: prevention rather than cure, community-based rather than top-down.

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The emphasis is on prevention rather than cure.

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The ECB is regarded as having provided a sticking-plaster rather than a cure for what ails the eurozone.

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For example, Medicare, the federal health-insurance scheme for the elderly, makes no allowance for palliative care, which eases suffering rather than attempting to cure the sufferer.

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Because they are given to healthy people to prevent disease, rather than to the sick to cure them, only the mildest side-effects are acceptable.

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Practicing business as usual or looking to reinvent your firm from the inside out, looking within for the answers rather than chasing technology as the cure all for your woes?

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For these autistics, targeting cure and prevention implies that they need to be prevented or cured, rather than appreciated and acknowledged for what they have to contribute, speaking or not, as part of the neurological diversity of the human species.

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