Nurse. Sorry, but I was referring, in the main, to primary healthcare.
I'm not sure what the answer is to the services' secondary healthcare problems. The services don't have enough sick people to justify running several regional general hospitals and, while, collectively, the services have a large enough population to justify running a single general hospital, the problem is, where to locate it. Wherever you put it, it's going to mean a lot of (personally and operationally) inconvenient trekking for a lot of outpatients. So, on the face of it, MDHUs are the answer. Are there no contracts between MDHUs and their parent hospitals regarding bed allocation? If not, why not?