That’s actually a daily, weekly event. In particular there are high seasons like in the summer where we had people on holidays, people for other reasons, you bring in a higher number of locums when we’re having trouble with recruitment in some areas. I know that a couple of authorities, Beaufort-Delta being one, had a higher percentage of locums and, in fact, a higher percentage of not
even being able to fill at the locum level. I think the best way is to give you averages over the past time.
The use of locum nurses in the smaller communities is increasing and part of that is our own nurses who have been coming in, a lot of people, doctors as well, are at late in career. Also the locum pools that we’ve used historically are also end-of-career people and they tend to come in for longer. Newer nurses are coming in for shorter periods, so it increases the numbers. It’s things that we’re looking at as far as how we fill, recruit, and even use locums. We will include those numbers from an average. It doesn’t necessarily tell you on the ground, the community-by-community, but we will do our best to give you a picture of that.