Ms Vanessa Hetherington:

To add to that, over the past five years, 3,000 doctors have left the medical register to take up positions abroad, and that is not even including the ones who have retired. We have probably around the same number who are on the register but working abroad, and they will probably never come back. It is a huge issue. We are crying out for doctors and the biggest problem is the working conditions they are in. They are junior doctors. They had experiences in training where they were working excessive hours. They are burnt out and fatigued, and they are just saying they trained and are out of here, that they are not going to put up with what their colleagues and superiors are doing.