Dr. Diarmuid Quinlan:

We already have some of that. GPs are working across many hospital departments, certainly in my area. My concern at a strategic level is that I would not like to see that as a one-way flow of GPs going into the hospital and obviously coming back to general practice with very valuable skills.

I would also like to see the potential for young hospital doctors to come and spend more time working in general practice so we have a better shared understanding of each other's working lives and what patients come to us. It would work both ways.