Mr. Paul Gordon:

In terms of diagnostics, there is huge divide. If we look at gynaecological cancers, for example, the difference in waiting times for ultrasounds is about seven days. The waiting time for MRI brain scans, which are particularly hard to come by in both systems, could be up to 480 days in the public system and perhaps 20 to 25 days in the private system. The waiting times for colonoscopies have risen about 129% in the last five years and it is probably slightly more than that now.