Mr. Marcus Keane:

Absolutely. There is an issue with capacity in the system that needs to be looked at.

When we spoke to hospital doctors and GPs in the community one of the things that was coming back very clearly was whatever the solution is to this issue, to reaching people in the community, it is not something that is going to be dealt with by the hospitals or the GP network alone. There are people who are working in hospitals who cannot get on GPs' books, so it is a real challenge. The solution to that is we need to look to peers and we need to look to people with lived experience who can reach into those communities and connect with people and support them to access treatment. We need to look at making things much easier to access, much more community-based and much more nurse- and peer-led, rather than relying on the medical aspects of care.