Mr. Bernard Gloster:

It is important to say that the original intention of the elective hospital was much less about capacity and much more about separating elective care from the pressure zone of emergency care hospitals because elective care kept getting bumped and lists kept getting cancelled. It is predominantly more in that territory.

To take the capacity point, what we have now seen with the first surgical hub is that we have the capability to do about 10,000 procedures per year and about 18,000 outpatient clinics associated with those. All of that is not just covering off current capacity. It is all eating in towards the trajectory of demand into the future. That is why I said that the more people were on our waiting lists, the better in terms of the healthcare of the people. The issue is the time they are on those lists. The hubs and elective hospitals will reduce that time. In particular, the elective hospital was brought in to guarantee a separation of elective care from urgent care.