Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

There is the matter of getting that system and the registry related to it but the key issue it depends on is then using that number in national clinical and operational systems. We have a national medical imaging system, which is almost fully rolled out. We are at the start of a process of rolling out a national laboratory information system. As the director general said, the maternal and newborn system is already rolled out in two hospitals, which is effectively an electronic health record for our maternity hospitals. The idea is that we want to use this individual health identifier in each of those systems and in our patient administration systems in order that they can all talk to each other.