Ms Aoife O'Malley:

Reconfiguration is very important for the streamlining of services to have the multi-disciplinary teams functioning within the one location and working together. It is extremely important, but that happens in only two of the nine CHIO. In my own clinical experience it is working better in those areas where multi-disciplinary teams are co-located and working together. That is not to say, however, that it is ideal because they are still under-resourced, but they do have access to their colleagues. When reconfiguration occurs, the assumption is that the resources will be put in place for the co-ordinated teams and co-ordinated access to services.