Mr Baber will tell councillors on the Health Scrutiny committee the PCH was working hardtotackle the staff shortages, that beds are only part of the picture and it is delivering the required levels of patient care.
And Mr D'Alema will find it equally hardtotackle the countless lobbies that make any reform in Italy so difficult: from rail workers to postal workers, from school-teachers to the officer corps, from politically motivated magistrates to the Christian pressure-groups that make sure the immigration laws are not implemented (this week, once again, hundreds of people landed illegally on Italy's shores).