Mr. Se?n Flood:

To clarify, I am the interim CEO of the NTPF. I say that just for the record. In terms of commissioning activity, we arrange the treatment on three active waiting lists. That is inpatient day case, gastrointestinal, GI, scopes, and the outpatient waiting lists. In the past two years we have offered full packages of care. That is where patients can go for an outpatient consultation and if a procedure is required, they will also get that as well as part of the package of care.

The other thing that we do is we fund diagnostics as well. In terms of the active waiting lists, last year we arranged treatment for 153,000 patients. In addition, diagnostics were arranged for a further 67,000. That is a total of 220,000.

In 2021, we arranged treatment for 100,000 patients on the active waiting list, and a further 44,500 diagnostics. That is a total of 145,000.