Mr. Paul Bell:

I will hand this part over to my colleague, Ms Marie Butler. There has been, I am glad to say, some progress made in recent times, led by my colleague, Ms Butler. The Chairman will see that in many areas of the health service there is basically no understanding of how the healthcare assistant role has developed, and we are still trying to develop it. The ongoing review has been dealing with the acute hospital setting. My colleague, Ms Butler, will outline what exactly has been going on there.