Ms Anne O'Connor:

On the way we are doing it at present, we are making considerable use of private hospitals. We are using about 800 bed days a week in private hospitals to support our system since the cyberattack. That is predominantly related to things such as radiotherapy, cancer treatment and diagnostics, given the impact across our system. We are looking at how we can maximise the use of both our public and private capacity, as Mr. Reid said. We cannot stop people travelling if they want and clearly we have significant waiting lists, although prior to the cyberattack the waiting lists had started to come down both for inpatient day cases and for our scopes, but the outpatient list continued to grow. We will not know until the data since the cyberattack come back what the impact of these five weeks has been. We are working closely with private providers and are looking at how we can do this differently with the access to care fund for the rest of the year and into next year.