Mr. Chris Nightingale:

There was a discussion on determining the scope of the reviews and we raised it at that point. We asked whether we would look at the workforce as we were doing it, particularly given that we were looking at the workforce in the primary care sector. The decision was not to do it because other workforce planning reviews were ongoing and we felt it was covered, though we said it could be included. A workforce capacity review is slightly different from workforce planning and there is a level of detail into which we would not expect to go, such as the working plans for doctors' health and job plans. The number of beds gives a proxy for the workforce and there is a view on the primary care workforce. There is a range between 7,000 to 2,000 beds and this can be converted into a number for nurses, though we have not done that in the report. Everybody can see that there is a big impact on workforce requirements, which is what everybody is driving at. However, we did not go into how one recruits, trains and retains those as that is for more detailed workforce planning.