Ms Colette Cowan:

It is challenging to get people to come and work in the mid-west, although not from the point of view of nurses. That applies in particular to attracting consultants to return to work because - and this is my personal view - their salary scale is not correct and must be reviewed. Extensive work is required on how we attract staff at that level to work in the service in this country. We will table a paper on that if it is of help regarding whole-time equivalents because I trust the person who raised this issue and did the analysis on it. I need to work more with national HR on it.