Mr. John Conroy:

We certainly do not limit time either as to when somebody can engage with us. One of the services we provide is manual emphatic drainage therapy, which is for people who may develop lymphedema due to a surgery related to a cancer diagnosis. Lymphedema can present at any stage. Somebody two, three, four or five years post-surgery may start to develop lymphedema and then they may come into our services. What we find with people who do come in four or five years later is that they may not have engaged with services and when they walk in they realise they have never addressed any of the trauma around their original diagnosis. Subsequently, they start to fall into other parts of our services. That is really important, that people know they can address this at any stage because what we find is that people go into the motion of getting through these appointments, and they have so many hospital appointments, six weeks of radiotherapy and six months of chemotherapy. Day by day, their routine is thrown out of kilter completely. They may not engage and then once they are through it, they may not want to go back to it and feel like they need to start moving on. Then they realise the trauma is there and that is where we pick up those pieces and can come in and help support. It is important that people know there is no time limit on our services.