Mr. Martin Varley:

There is but one would have to survey consultants individually. I was trying to guesstimate the total number of outpatient clinic appointments where outpatients would be seen in private practice consultants' rooms. Even if one allowed for 33 patients to be seen in a week across two clinics, in two half days, there could be in excess of 1 million such outpatient appointments per year. I am guesstimating that 20,000 outpatient clinic appointments would normally take place in a week but it could be a lot higher. I do not know how many of those are lost.