Mr. Liam Woods:

Mr. Kilian McGrane, who is sitting on my left, is the recently appointed - since 3 January - lead for this programme. It is following a model that is analogous to the national cancer control programme, NCCP, approach, which I will speak more about in due course. We are in the process of appointing an obstetric clinical lead and we are also recruiting a director of midwifery. They will be the three key posts. That is rather similar to the kind of collection of skills one would have had at the core of the delivery of the cancer programme.

I will address some of the common themes and then I will go back through the individual points. Gynaecology came up a couple of times and perhaps I should deal with that. From our perspective it seems a natural fit to have the gynaecology service within the deliberations of the overall strategy, so it is our intention to do that.

We see it as part of the overall dialogue with women in the service. The plan is to progress is on the same basis as the overall strategy.