Professor Gerard Bury:

I thank the Deputy. I will ask my colleagues to comment because I think they are really important and much broader issues than perhaps the ones we have focused on in our very focused project. What has been inspirational is to meet the colleagues we have encountered on our training programmes and to hear of the circumstances in which they are working and living and to see their genuine robustness and solidarity with each other, as well as their coping abilities under circumstances that theoretically might be expected to damage people immediately. There is no doubt that war and civil disruption, to the extent that it is happening in each of the countries the Deputy described, has devastating effects on the population. We have to acknowledge that people are awfully robust. They look after each other and societies, with the sort of solidarity and the cementing together Ukraine in particular has in terms of the attack it has endured, have been surprisingly robust in my experience.

It is a great example in the longer term perhaps, and in the continuing care phase I mentioned earlier, of how expertise from our country might support colleagues - psychological, psychiatric and mental health specialists - in identifying the areas in which their services in the future are going to have to cope. We cannot deliver that care for ourselves. It is going to be long term and massive in terms of its need but I think there is the expertise in this country to contribute, but perhaps not in the most obvious of ways.