Ms Anne O'Connor:

The primary care centres will be central to how we approach winter and the coming year. The specific initiatives we are considering relate to supporting people in avoiding admissions to hospital and in having timely discharges, for example, our integrated care people for older people and our programme for chronic disease for people who need to attend our community nursing services, occupational therapists, physios, etc. We are also considering primary care centres in terms of the development of our community health networks. This core element has been in existence for a while and we are looking to roll it our further. Having better and more localised integrated care available to the population will involve GPs, community nursing and other allied health disciplines in the community. Our primary care centres are also key for our community intervention teams and many centres have mental health services working out of them. The centres will be at the core of what we are trying to do this winter.