Ms Eil?sh Hardiman:

Patient safety is at the centre of everything that we do. We definitely committed, in 2022, to increase the activity and, in particular, to look at the longest waiters and take them off our list. The Deputy will see the numbers and how much we achieved in that regard, with a 47% increase in spinal surgery. It became clear in August of that year - I have only seen the email now - that the patients were having longer waiting times. By the end of August, even though we were planning to try to support the clinicians to do as many of them, and that is about prioritising-----