Professor Pascal McKeown:

Yes, the ideal healthcare system would be one where every patient entering would contribute in some way to information about the system. Registries are one way of monitoring how many patients are presenting with condition X or Y. If we have research and innovation, it allows us to look at novel therapies for heart disease but it is also sometimes around the systems in which we operate and how networks operate to optimise access to care. That might be around care pathways, for example. Dr. Murphy mentioned access to imaging. If we build a culture of innovation around healthcare, we will end up with much better health outcomes. It would also allow us to keep patients in the community and have access to relevant care upstream so that they do not end up actually having to come in to hospital when they have already declared that they have a disease. There is a lot of information that would be aided if we had access to registries and better research and innovation within the healthcare system.