Ms Laura Magahy:

The Deputy has raised a very interesting question about what the new model of care will look like when we move care that should not be in hospitals more into the community. It is around the needs of the population, and that is what the geoalignment will facilitate. It will need a combination of approaches based on whatever the needs are. We will talk to the different training bodies about training extra GPs and practice nurses, for example, training advanced nurse practitioners, ANPs, and community nurses, and cross-training for multidisciplinary team approaches, and about trying to get that in the colleges at an early stage rather than everyone being trained in their own specific area and then being expected to work in a multidisciplinary way later, by miracle. There is also clinical managerial training. We are starting to engage younger professionals and enlisting their views, because of the disaffection that many have expressed about working in the system, to hear what they have to say. It will have to follow the model of care and what that will look like when we start to move types of work which are taking place in the hospitals into the community.