Dr. Ciara Martin:

From 2009, we have had a common contract such that any hospital consultant appointed in one of the three children's hospitals is appointed to the future children's hospital also. Most of those appointments have a cross-city dimension. We have a number of working groups set up. We have secondments at nursing and administration levels between hospitals. Where a hospital may have a shortfall, we second staff from other hospitals. There is a joint junior hospital recruitment policy across the three hospitals. We run joint interviews. Our laboratory managers work across the three sites also.