Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I am not sure how well exploited it has been. I very much favour an appropriate skills mix of healthcare assistants and nursing staff where we have inpatient facilities and services, and particularly where we have care services. In the context of the way nurses are now trained and the skill set they have, we must seriously think about the benefit that can accrue from, for example, advanced nurse practitioners, in a similar way to how we approach advanced paramedics. Many of them can do things that were traditionally the remit of junior doctors. That is an observation about overall change.

The other thing we can do to help better use the staff time we have available to us is through the use of technology and digital technology into the future in terms of how we care for and support people.