As the previous Government repeatedly told us for five years, it spent an increasing amount of money on the health service. Having done this, it proceeded to draft a health strategy. My understanding of how to run a business or organisation is that one first produces a business plan or strategy. Once the strategy or plan has been defined and one has identified where one is and where one wants to be, one begins to organise resources to achieve this objective. The approach of the previous Government, however, was entirely perverse in the sense that it constituted a reversal of all logic. Clearly the health strategy was no more than a cobbling together of every good aspiration and intention people from around the country had expressed. It said nothing about the way in which we would get from our then position, which was awful, to where we wanted to be, which was excellent. This is the fundamental problem the Government still faces.