Professor Steve Thomas:

To do that will either require existing staff to work more days a week or it will require new staff. I refer to the earlier point about capacity. Our existing staff are probably working to the max. They are burned out after Covid, demoralised and need supports. I do not think a solution is to say we should have the doors open on more days because we are going to need more staff to do that. It comes back to a training issue and, therefore, a primary care team issue about how we allocate our human resources in the community setting.