Ms Ilanna Darcy:

Endometriosis is only one of the conditions that feed in to the overall health strategy for the country. What we are looking for today, I suppose, is to bring the voice of endometriosis a bit more clearly through to any of the decisions regarding how health framework strategies are set up and rolled out in order that the needs of the patients can be heard more clearly in deciding how to allocate resources and how to attract trained physicians and specialists on a whole basis. As a charity, we would like to be involved in that process. We appreciate that there are constraints on resources and this constrains the level of roles that can be filled etc. It is to bring our voice into it in order that we are part of the conversation in terms of allocating where resources go, but where we need to train and attract more specialists.