Dr. Peter McKenna:

It would be a great help. We are currently looking at the capacity of the colposcopy clinics to cope with the expected increase in numbers of referrals when the change comes to HPV. There are 15 colposcopy clinics and we are looking at those. We have visited six of them so far. The story we are hearing is pretty much the same, in that there is a small lack of physical capacity and staffing issues. We are doing a business plan as to how these can best be addressed. At the moment, that is not the main problem. The main problem is the 80,000 smears that are in a laboratory. When those results come through, there will then be an increased referral to colposcopy and that will begin to be a pinch point.