Professor Orla Sheils:

Pharmacy is an example of where people got together and devised a national network to facilitate placements. It means they can make use of a wider geographic area. If one is depending on an individual partner institution, one is limited by the amount of capacity that institution has within its system, unless the Department of Health funds a clinical tutor at the site. Having more joined-up thinking might be a way of alleviating some of those geographical issues.