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We also felt that we would need to get that buy-in from the subject committees; the forum for doing that would be the Conveners Group, and we would do that before we sought to finalise a new system.
The shortage is significant. The latest figures show that there are 30 consultant vacancies at present and that 20 per cent of those have been vacant for more than six months.
Even that would be satisfactory, provided that the focus was on outcomes and not merely on establishing whether the latest fashionable advice was being complied with.
Perhaps it is not incumbent on you to give us those reasons, but I presume that there must be a benefit to the local economy in going from 26 days' racing up to between 80 and 100 days.