Mr. Dean Sullivan:

That is a never-ending journey. There are 11,000 hospital beds, as Ms Magahy's slides showed. One of the key planks of the capacity and access process is to improve the efficiency with which we use beds, but we will never get to the end of that journey. The opportunities Ms Magahy has flagged up are there and we need to tackle them. There are other opportunities, however, from discharge once a patient is declared medically fit all the way through to, as Ms Magahy said, patients being admitted on the day of surgery, ideally, or on the day before. Good progress is being made on that, but again there is further work to be done.