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Put that there were "bunch" of people coming to see the Prime Minister today regarding protecting manufacturing jobs, as well as a "bunch" of health union people outside Parliament, and did the Prime Minister have a message for any of them, the PMOS replied that firstly, the Prime Minister would not speak of them as a "bunch"! In terms of health, the issue was a straightforward one, but of course, there was local consultation. The bottom line was as the Chief Executive of the NHS had said at the Prime Minister’s press conference, polishing the status quo was not an option in terms of the health service. That had been underlined by comments today from Niall Dickson from the King’s Fund who had said that change was essential. The question was: how was change brought about?

The PMOS said that people should recognise that there were 300,000 extra staff in the NHS since 1997, and 159,000 of those were clinical staff. Therefore, what we had seen was a major injection of staffing and investment. The key question was: given the advances in technology, and the changes in demand and expectations that people had for more local and accessible services, as well as, given the fact that many of the diseases that we now saw were better treated on a day care basis, rather than a long stay basis, how was that change brought about in order to meet the new circumstances?

Asked about the manufacturing jobs, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister would obviously want to listen, but in terms of decisions by companies, that was a matter for them. What we had to do was to ensure that we had the right backdrop in terms of regulations etc to encourage investment in manufacturing. However, if there was to be change, we needed to help people make that change in terms of acquiring the skills that they needed to move to other jobs.

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Manufacturing takes turns under all types of economic systems. In a free market economy, manufacturing is usually directed toward the mass production of products for sale to consumers at a profit. In a collectivist economy, manufacturing is more frequently directed by the state to supply a centrally planned economy. In mixed market economies, manufacturing occurs under some degree of government regulation.;’^..

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