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If the service has to make cuts in total provision what does this mean? For the last decades we have been working to increase life expectancy in the population, this has obviously required major investment in services both staff and equipment, this has raised the public’s expectations of the NHS and wider social care economy, if the funding is now cut either in Social Care or the NHS surely the “inefficiencies” that McKinsey found in the acute sector will increase as the queues build up for services. It would seem to me that if there was a 10% reduction in the staffing across the board, the capacity of the NHS to meet the increasing demand due to the demographic profile on its services will be reduced. With this reduced capacity does this mean that PCTs will be making the decisions about what procedures they can afford? This might bring an upturn in the housing market...