Dr. John-Paul Byrne:

"Working conditions" is quite a general term. The experience of the doctors we have spoken to on a day-to-day basis is that they do not get to spend enough time being doctors. To go back to the previous question, I have spoken to a doctor who is asked to fix a printer fairly regularly. When doctors are asked to do such things they ask themselves why are they fixing a printer. We have doctors who have PCs that are slower than those of many of the students in universities. They are fighting these systemic inefficiencies on a day-to-day basis and this takes away from their time being a doctor. This, along with work-life balance, are two of the major issues causing these recruitment and retention issues. Something we want to get across is that recruitment, retention and the return of doctors are all related to working conditions.