As the cameras go about their business, you wonder what happened to the man whose bowler hat still rests where he left it or the socialite who admired her reflection in the mirror of a now-decayed wash stand.

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Even so, the Welsh Assembly Government has issued very specific instructions as to exactly what services fall under whose responsibility - precisely to end this sort of unseemly wrangling where the patient is the one who ends up losing out.

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