Dr. Mary Favier:

I will add to what was said about the resourcing issues. For historical and complicated reasons, Travellers tend to congregate and coalesce in their living circumstances in areas that are deprived. That is usually to do with circumstances such as where halting sites are placed or allowed or where they have been illegal. Areas of high urban deprivation have specific needs. There is a very easy win in terms of providing cohorts of funding to those particular general practices. There has been some move towards that in recent funding streams but it needs to be substantially higher. Travellers are part of the population for GPs in areas of blanket deprivation, as opposed to pocket deprivation, and we need to have more GPs in those areas and they need to take more time.