Ms Anne O'Connor:

To add to that, the advantage is that, as we develop primary care teams, we know that staff, particularly those who are newly qualified, benefit hugely from working as members of multidisciplinary teams. Historically, disciplines in the community and elsewhere have worked in their own professional silos so, when someone is gone, his or her list is not covered. Multidisciplinary working changes that slightly. It does not mean that we magic up capacity that we do not have but it does mean that families and children coming through primary care centres, whether attending the primary care team, children's disability teams or whatever, are familiar with the team and there is less of a gap when an individual member of staff is lost. There is no doubt that we struggle to cover leave but at least by having teams that are co-located, we are able to work differently with people.