Ms Anne O'Connor:

We will not be recruiting staff. We are examining how we use the staff we have because once one gets to mid-December the activity in community services changes. We are talking to managers and they are talking to their staff about who will be available to facilitate doing things differently. We are asking people to redefine normal activity for those four weeks in particular. Often, people do not want to attend appointments in primary care centres with children, etc., so we are looking at our range of professionals and how we can utilise our workforce differently in those four weeks. A very intensive effort is going on to examine the set of supports available across the community and acute------