Professor Susan Smith:

I will start with the question on salaried GPs as it was mentioned earlier and it links to one of the Deputy's earlier remarks about what would one choose if one could only choose deprivation weighted payments or specific resources. The truth is that I do not believe there is any one answer to any of this. Salaried GPs is a great idea but they have to work in a practice, so it is very unlikely that a centre could be set up that was only staffed by salaried GPs. They would need to have the kind of integration with the rest of the system such as GMS contracts. They would be working with GPs with GMS contracts. It is part of the solution but it is not the only solution. The committee has spoken about barriers and GPs not participating fully in primary care centres. My colleague, Dr. Gibney, has good experience in addressing those barriers.