Mr. Bernard Gloster:

There are three forms of that which we try to use and develop. One is the local injury units, which are now seeing significant numbers of people. In fact, they are seeing very high numbers of people and we are expanding those injury units. Second, there is the medical assessment units, which is less on the injury side and more on the medical side. They are not, unfortunately, at the seven-day scale that you would want them to be at. The third is the model on which most of the GP out-of-hours services now work, which is a co-op based surgery. I am meeting with one of the health insurance providers that run some of those services in the next two weeks to look at the possibilities to further assist the public sector to avail of what opportunities are there. In simple terms, it is a very rapid and very good form of access for people who do not need urgent care but need to be attended to. I do not dispute their value.