Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I will allow my two clinical colleagues, who are experienced practitioners in the acute hospitals, to address the triage question. I was very clear when I appeared previously at the committee. I agree with the Deputy that there are times of the evening and times of the week when we do not have the distribution of staff we could and should have to make the service flow better over the course of seven days. I am continuing to pursue that and we have made some progress on it. Unfortunately, because of the recruitment pause, I am currently facing work to rule. My understanding is that one of the unions is going to escalate that action very shortly. That will interfere with the plans to introduce any significant change for the short term. I am still hopeful we will do it, however. We have done a fair bit of it.

On the triage question, Dr. Henry might give the Deputy a flavour of how that works.