Given the uplift of only 0.5 per cent, there is no indication how, within the remainder of the budget, a saving of 2 per cent—the biggest efficiency gain that has been required of health boards since the Tory years when, in fact, there were cuts—will be made, given that 65 per cent of the costs are on staff, there are to be no compulsory redundancies and 10 per cent of the whole budget is spent on medicines...