Ms Paula Kelly:

As Professor McCormack said, our training in orthopaedics - it is one of our strengths as well as one of our weaknesses - is such that we all train in adults and then sub-specialise in paediatric training so every paediatric orthopaedic surgeon in the country has a two-year paediatric fellowship training. It means every adult orthopaedic surgeon has the skill set to look after paediatric trauma and it is key at a national level to continue this. If our adult surgeons are not trained, the paediatric surgeons will need to do all the trauma, and that is not option. We have eight SpRs coming off the training programme each year. The problem, as Professor McCormack said, is attracting those people to paediatrics. People do not go into paediatric orthopaedic for money; they go into it because they want to look after children with disability. That is-----