Ms Louise McGirr:

We have sped up recruitment of consultants specifically and significantly since the POCC. We have significant take ups. While we still have an issue with locums in some regional areas and specialties, we have extremely high recruitment of consultants because of the attraction for previously hard to fill posts resulting from the POCC. We are seeing that come through all the time. Our consultant body has increased by about 50%. We are speeding up. I think the time dropped from 18 months to nine months end to end for recruitment processes. There are internal processes-----