Dr. Fiona O'Reilly:

Yes. Things like public health nursing are important, as are measures to stop families falling away from their GPs and communities. If a hotel opens up on a public health nurse's patch then all of sudden it is that nurse's responsibility to remind families of their immunisation appointments and so forth. There is a new draw on the mainstream services then and they in turn are overburdened. Wherever there are new family hubs or people living in hotels these services will need to be supported. If these services are not supported a gap will arise and we in Safetynet will be asked to intervene. It is not that our failing to intervene solves the problem either, of course, but it is better that this gap be prevented in the first place. Our having to intervene marks another failure in the mainstream service.