Mr. Leo Kearns:

Effectively, yes. We are going to have community services, acute services and specialist services. The intention is to have a leadership team across all of that for the population in the region. At the moment, as the Senator is aware, there is a budget for community care, acute services and mental health. GPs provide a service in the community. Essentially, we are providing the care in a fragmented way. Some of the real problems that we have are because it being done like that. The key reason for the RHAs is that we must look across all the services being provided for the full population. The leadership team sits across all of that. The point I made is very important, namely, that we cannot just introduce another layer into the health service. If the joined-up approach does not work at local level, then putting in the RHAs is not going to make any difference. Essentially, that is exactly what needs to happen.