Some 25% of doctors in the country are consultants, but we have a terrible shortage of consultants. The report points out that we are ranked 13th out of 14 European countries in the number of inhabitants per doctor. The health boards and hospitals apply for the doctors they want and are far more likely to apply for cardiac surgeons than neurologists. There is a desperate shortage of neurologists, but people with Parkinsonism or degenerative myelomas do not get the same sort of attention that people with bad hearts do.