Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On the first issue on the number of doctors, nurses and the overall staffing, over the last several years we've been able to keep our wards open. ICU at one point had been closed for months and through a number of initiatives, including hiring of professionals and nurses and also cross-training of staff, we have been able to keep the wards like ICU open. I haven't got figures in front of me, but the last I saw we were down to three or four nursing vacancies at Stanton. I know several years ago, we were up over 10 or 15 vacancies at any point in time. So we have been able to bring some stability there.
On the overtime issue, in order to live within its resources, Stanton has put in a number of expenditure management actions, one of which was not putting in overtime or calling back in staff at overtime rates, depending on the number of patients on the ward at the time. It's been made clear that at no time will overtime not be approved if the number of patients on a particular ward warranted it. If there are three patients and we need three nurses, an extra nurse might get called in. What happened at one point is Stanton was actually calling in staff even if they didn't have the patients on the ward. They would be calling them back because that was the staffing model. What they have done now is include looking at the number of patients at a point in time in that ward that night and calling in staff accordingly.
Again, the other thing was the number of doctors at Stanton. We have been successful in the last two years in bringing in a new orthopaedic surgeon. We've got a new internal medicine specialist starting in May. We've also brought in another general surgeon. So we are pretty much fully staffed on the physician side, special side, except for the area of a psychiatrist. We are still having trouble on a national basis of finding a second psychiatrist position. Thank you.