Mr. Bernard Gloster:

The Secretary General's observation is pointed and accurate. One of the things we have agreed with the Minister, going into the start of January, is that apart from next year's service plan, which will do whatever it will do, I am establishing a very small productivity unit to look at what exactly the opportunities are for us to get better productivity out of the resource we have and what those opportunities are to inform the structure of health service funding for the next three to four years. There is a question there to be asked and answered. I do not know what the answer is. There would not always be a direct correlation between the number of staff and number of patients going through. For example, some of those new staff in hospitals would be associated with new methodologies or new ways of doing treatments like cancer treatments or surgeries. A stroke programme, for example, would-----