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And they needed to overcome the propensity that they were experiencing of severe weather.

Right.

But thick snow.

Now, in this country, we think of thick snow is just an inch or two.

But, you know, you've got plenty of staff that in there in our modern day vehicles cannot get through.

the forest or whatever they need to and the B or C class roads to get there.

So what do you do? You can't just every time there's two inches of snow, shut the hospital.

You've got to try and overcome that.

And they came up with one of their scenarios was actually we'll buy some four by four vehicles.

Right.

Extreme.

Yes.

But actually, it keeps them ticking over on what is a quite frequent occurrence.

Of course, severe, severe weather, you know, five foot snow or something.

That's a different beast entirely.

But it gives them that just a little bit extra resiliency.

You know, you can go and pick people up.

One of the ways that hospital functions is to have its patients come into the nearest train station and they have like a minibus that carries people.

That's part of its service offering.

Right.

So people haven't got to drive to this location for their experience.

Well, the 4x4 vehicle would take over from that in that scenario.

So you'd still be able to get patients to and from the station in the hospital.

So that's a strategy that they came up with.

Is that perfect? Does it solve every possible crisis they could ever experience? No.