Pressure on the NHS - and hospitals in particular - is growing all the time.
But pay would have to be held down and the workforce cut by around 10%, say NHS-watchers.
He added that NHS-provided IVF was not yet available for most eligible people, despite being recommended in national guidelines.
He said everybody deserved equal treatment from the NHS - including George Best.
Mr Swinney is protecting the NHS - but health service professionals warn that high cost inflation will erode that.
But that requires a re-think in how the NHS - and the social care provided by councils - is organised.
Mr Daya - who performed the operation on the NHS - describes Mr Roberts' vision as "better than he has ever experienced".
Debbie says she could have opted to have her implants removed under the NHS -but it would have taken too long to organise.
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The recruitment of overseas suppliers into the NHS - setting up new treatment centres extending choice - has also had a significant effect.
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It will lead to questions about whether the NHS - and the famous children's hospital - were shielded from criticism over the case.
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The age limit for NHS-funded fertility treatment is 38 in Scotland and 39 in Northern Ireland, according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
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Currently, women in Northern Ireland are only allowed one free cycle on the NHS - unlike England where in most trusts women are entitled to three.
However, the service did meet the second target set by the NHS - to respond to 75% of callers reporting a life-threatening emergency within eight minutes.
Dr Malone believes a new pay and career package in the NHS - Agenda for Change - would solve many of the recruitment and retention problems.
Radical supporters will urge him to go for what is called here "a single-payer scheme", which means an NHS-type system, funded out of general taxation.
Despite a series of U-turns - from forestry to school books to the NHS - the Treasury has yet to release any extra money to departments.
"The man charged with running the NHS - its chief executive - has admitted that government targets have made dealing with the superbug more difficult, " he said.
Another amendment - tabled by Labour to introduce a duty to prevent bureaucracy in the NHS - was defeated by 231 votes to 169, government majority 62.
In its top 10 facts from the last year, the report highlights the 10, 000 more nurses working in the NHS - halfway to the government's 2004 target.
As a result, women treated on the NHS - will be offered removal and replacement implants if women decide that's what they want after a scan and consultation with their surgeon.
The actual provision of health services, in hospitals, diagnostic labs and doctors' surgeries is, with a few exceptions (veterans have a NHS-like network of their own), carried out by the private sector.
It says the NHS - specifically GPs - should provide "independent information, advice and counselling services for women requesting termination of pregnancy" - and it defines "independent" as an organisation that does not itself provide abortions.
He works for London Transport and she is a nurse in the NHS - typical of the professional black families who've arrived from inner London to take advantage of available housing as the borough's white residents leave.
Two computer programmes have been approved for use in the NHS - Fear Fighter for treating people who have phobias or suffer from panic attacks, and Beating the Blues for treating people with mild to moderate depression.
But another, more surprising factor is that a lot of civil servants - in Whitehall departments, but also places like the NHS - have continued to receive the "annual increments" they're entitled to, for building up experience.
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However, the council wants Mr Rees, who has had the condition for 12 years, to be assessed for continuing healthcare, an NHS-funded care package which would give him up to five visits from district nurses per day, but would mean losing their current funding.
Dr Haboubi, who is also chair of the National Obesity Forum for Wales and runs the country's only NHS-funded obesity clinic, said the problem was "huge, massive, worse than England, worse than anywhere in the UK and among the worst in the western world, I would argue".
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Health minister Earl Howe denied that cost was the prime consideration for NICE - the body that approves treatments for use by the NHS - in declining to license a new oral treatment for MS. He added some neurologists had concerns about the effects of using the drug Fingolimod.
Dr Haboubi, who is also chair of the National Obesity Forum for Wales and runs the country's only NHS-funded obesity clinic, said last month that the problem was "huge, massive, worse than England, worse than anywhere in the UK and among the worst in the western world, I would argue".
It comes after a British Medical Journal article warned last month that obesity - already responsible for 9% of the NHS budget - could bankrupt the NHS in the future.
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