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Primary Care Trusts and Ambulance Trusts

I am grateful for those comments—more like it would be much appreciated—and for my hon. Friend’s measured words. I am happy to give her the assurance that although we expect merger to be right in due course, I hear what she says. I will relay her words to Lord Warner, who has done a great deal of work to bring about the proposals. Not long ago I was a customer of Staffordshire ambulance service following a crash on the M6. The standard of care was exceptional and the standard of support provided by the paramedics on site was fantastic. I have good personal reason to endorse fully what my hon. Friend says.