Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Coming into the June and August bank holiday weekends and the balance of this year, while we are waiting to secure what I hope will be more fundamental agreements on the recruitment and contracting of people, the predominant focus is on people who can make decisions about inpatient beds; who can provide the diagnostics to enable decisions to be made for inpatient beds and emergency departments; and community services that can facilitate the normal avoidance of someone coming to hospital or facilitate discharge. It cuts across all grades including medical, nursing, especially allied health professional grades in the community, some administrative staff and general practitioner out-of-hours services.