Dr. Niamh Humphries:

It is great to hire more doctors, but I am not sure that more junior doctors are what the system needs. We need to be moving towards a consultant-delivered service, as set out by the Hanly report. Although we have hired many more NCHDs, we probably need more consultants, some more trainers, more senior doctors and more senior decision-makers in the system. It is important to design a system that is focused on the doctor. The situation the Deputy described, with frequent moves and long working hours for NCHDs, is not really doctor-centred. It is difficult to see how one can change that. Going forward, our workforce policy-----