Consultants at the hospital told me that, although the recruitment and retention pressures that the board faces have not gone completely—as they have not for any board—they have eased significantly from the position of a few years ago.To respond to Richard Simpson's question about funding, it is not only me who thinks that the NHS boards have what it takes financially to maintain the accident and emergency departments—the boards think that they can sustain the costs and have accident and emergency departments that are not just as good as, but better than the ones that have been there to date...