Mr. David Keegan:

Thankfully, however, in the case of urgent eye care many units will help to deliver urgent eye care quickly. Consequently, if one has a retinal detachment or acute macular degeneration and one attends the accident and emergency services, one tends to be dealt with promptly. However, that circumstance is reflected in many conditions with which patients present. The urgent care meets the standard but it is the less than urgent and the routine care that fall short. The waiting time for a cataract, because it is a Government target, is nine months. While it drifts over that from time to time, this was helped by special initiatives along the way. Does that answer the Senator's question?