Professor Anne Matthews:

To go back to living standards, housing and poverty, including more recent reports about poverty, these are all the problems the healthcare system has to deal with. As Professor Heenan has said, we have problems in the health system, including a lack of capacity and the lack of staff Ms Hanna mentioned, an issue on which we are running to keep up and where there is huge international recruitment of all healthcare staff across the two jurisdictions. If those kinds of determinants of health were tackled, there would be less pressure on the health system, allowing some capacity for this kind of work. Obviously, it is not that simple.