The very welcome announcement today of a new bed-management tool underlines the Government’s commitment to ensuring that there is the necessary hospital capacity with the right type and number of beds and staff in the right places to support such changes and to help our boards to plan their services.We need, in order to reduce demands on the NHS, to continue to develop preventative measures, such as the detect cancer early programme, and to develop measures that decrease the incidence of avoidable lifestyle-related diseases, such as the decisive action that the Government is taking to introduce alcohol minimum unit pricing, which will help to save lives and address the pressures that are put on the NHS through the thousands of hospital admissions and attendances at accident and emergency departments that result from alcohol misuse.We need to develop measures that improve co-ordination...