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NHS Staffing

I am grateful for the intervention. I know that the Government are in favour of targets, but the fact that we have doubled the amount of money that goes into the NHS but increased outputs by a maximum of only 25 per cent. is a problem, and I think we all accept that. I do not know where the black hole is. I do not believe that the money has gone into staffing, but it may have gone into reorganisation. When we reorganised Northamptonshire's PCT—I cannot understand why—from three PCTs to one, the cost of that, with hiring and firing people and so on, appeared to be a complete waste of money.