Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

One of my colleagues might cover diagnostics and I will cover agency nursing. The Deputy asked about conversion targets. In setting the whole-time equivalent limits to year end for each of our national entities, we have set a target or limit for agency conversion across all levels of agency. If people can convert agency provision or overtime in real net terms based on where they were in June, that is considered to be an acceptable growth in whole-time equivalents. We are trying to drive down the level of reliance on agency staff, not just for cost purposes but also for service reasons, as we said earlier. While there is a limit as to how much net additional growth we will accept where someone explains the reason for an increase in whole-time equivalents, if someone goes over that and can demonstrate that they have actually brought in more people and sustainably dropped agency use, we do not see that as an issue.