Professor Damian McCormack:

Absolutely. For 20 years that is what I have done. Perhaps one patient was cancelled and went public, but I have not ever to my knowledge had a distressed waiting list in scoliosis in 20 years because I will bring acute patients up the waiting list and do the surgery where that is necessary and explain to the next patient that they are waiting a week because this patient has to be done. That has happened quietly, professionally in the background for 20 years. My cohort have not been in the media. That is what it takes. It is not a case of a general, global solution for everybody, it is one at a time. If a patient is in trouble and needs to be done, my list is cancelled until that patient is done. It is capacity really, because we are swamped.