Ms Fiona Murphy:

At the moment, we are slightly ahead of schedule for this year. We are approximately 6% ahead of where we thought we would be by now. If we continue to be able to screen as rapidly as we are doing at the moment and if we get our mobile services going around the country, we hope to have screened all the women who did not get screened in 2020 this year, with all the 2021 people being screened next year. I am saying that on the basis that we do not have another Covid outbreak of significant concern and there are no further restrictions. We are all hoping restrictions can be lifted even further, which would allow us to screen a few more people every day. We try to get some 40 people through our mobile services every day; most of them are managing 36 or 37 patients at this time. We are still slightly below pre-pandemic levels but nearly back to that number. Every two or three patients we can add into the mobile service, multiplied by the 24 mobile units around the country, allows us to catch up a little further. By the end of 2022, we anticipate being able to go back to a two-year round for our next round of screening.