Dr. Kathleen MacLellan:

Yes, absolutely.

In response to the question about the cancer registry, the cancer strategy steering group is meeting this afternoon to finalise the cancer strategy. That is based on, and driven by, the information that has come from the cancer registry which is critically important. Earlier this year we published the maternity strategy and were able to pull from several data sets so that we could get a sense of the demand for the system, its capacity and the areas where we needed to focus the key objectives of the maternity strategy. The sense of being able to create data sets around various diseases and conditions is critically important for the planning and development of our system. From a patient safety and planning point of view we very much support and see that the provisions of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill will support the growth of those types of information systems.