Dr. Colm Henry:

Efficiencies regarding outpatients do not just relate to timing and, yes, we run evening clinics already. Using the public-only consultants contract, POCC, we are going to run Saturday clinics, too. It is also about how clinics are used. The new patient-to-returning patient ratio is 2.5:1 across all specialties. We can improve on this and have set a target of a new-to-return ratio of 2:1. This will not apply, clearly, to some hospital critical specialties, such as oncology and nephrology. We are also going to look at central referrals, where we pool referrals into one single recipient in a hospital rather than have one consultant hold on to waiting lists. We have did not attend, DNA, initiatives looking at high DNA rates. There is a menu of-----