Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Fundamentally, the alterations we have seen to general practice in recent years around additional eligibility, etc., have been add-ons to a very old contract frame. There is no point in saying anything different. We have now had two iterations of a revised consultant contract since that original GP contract and there is a fundamental question of revisiting the base contract. In revisiting the base contract, the question arises as to direct employed versus self-employed GPs. It is not all duck or no dinner. It is a mix of both.