Dr. Catherine Day:

He does not attend or chair so there is involvement on paper but not in practice. There are nuances and differences among those 12 hospitals. Most of the faith-based organisations, though not all, are withdrawing from the boards of hospitals or withdrawing their right to nominate directors to boards and some are even withdrawing from ownership of hospitals. We cannot say exactly how many years the process will take but we estimate, based on decisions we know are being taken in some of the faith-based organisations, that it will be relatively quick. Our best estimate is that the number of hospitals with faith-based involvement will have declined to four in three to five years' time.