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Department of Health

I shall come to that in a moment. Most NHS organisations are delivering high-quality patient services and balancing the books. The hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh) mentioned Castro and Mao Tse Tung in one breath, which impressed no Labour Members, or at least very few, but he also said that it was very difficult to manage a demand-led service. That is a typical comment from a Liberal Democrat: the Liberal Democrats find it very hard to make decisions that might prove difficult to handle and unpopular locally. I can tell him that the NHS does manage a demand-led service in large part, and does it very well.