Mr. Martin Varley:

We are in an environment where the health service and health services generally had been hugely challenged because of the crisis. Yes, some damage has been done because we have not optimised what could have been done in private hospitals. Care to urgent non-Covid patients has been prohibited and frustrated and care for non-Covid urgent patients in public hospitals has also been delayed. This is anything but an ideal environment. We could have done better, as we have alluded to, by putting more practical arrangements in place to allow private practice consultants to operate their suites and outpatient clinics to give timely care to their patients. They were more than happy to do that, together with providing care in the private hospitals, as had been requested. That was not facilitated and that was the huge problem we had.