Mr. Bernard Gloster:

It means we move from an emergency system on Saturdays with the emergency department or on-site or on-call arrangements in diagnostics and other things to a functioning system on Saturdays with outpatient clinics and late Thursday evenings because it suits people who are at work. Something consultants would agree with, as would we, is that theatre utilisation leaves much to be desired in the context of the amount of downtime. It means Saturday being a normal day as opposed to being an emergency or on-call day.