But as numbers fall, it is inevitable that budgets will also reduce.

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Parents last week met to discuss plans to rearrange the way primary schools are run in Gwynedd as pupil numbers fall.

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Dr Brian Keighley, the chairman of the British Medical Association Scotland, said the high standard of performance was testimony to the NHS's hard-working staff, under pressure to achieve targets as staffing numbers and budgets fall.

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