Dr. Amanda Burke:

It very much depends on the composition of the teams and the strengths within them. It will depend on what disciplines are represented on the team, what capacity there is and whether or not the team is working within a clinical directorate.

For example, in my own area, we work within a clinical directorate so we may have more capacity to cross-cover areas. People move on and they get promotional posts; there has been a lot of movement and vacancies take a while to fill. We look at the entirety of our staff and move them around, depending on need. Just because one team is not fully staffed would not mean a child is necessarily compromised and we could source their treatment from an adjacent area.