Dr. Donal McManus:

In more recent years organisations have merged together and are using their former organisation to help deliver another. Progress is slow. Fewer than 20 organisations have merged but the trend now is that more boards, for succession planning purposes, have decided to finish and to transfer to another AHB. That has happened in a few cases. It is small at the moment but we think that is a trend going forward to manage the assets over the long term.