Well, Llywydd, I thank Sarah Murphy for that important question. She's right to highlight the key role of operating department practitioners within the surgical team. She will know from her visit to the Princess of Wales that the current challenge in operating theatres is not simply one of staff, it is also dealing with the restrictions that safe practice in the coronavirus context also requires. She'll have heard, I'm sure, directly from staff about how theatres have to be cleaned thoroughly between every operation, as to how some procedures—where it was possible to have an operating list with eight procedures in a day, they can now only manage three in a day, even when fully staffed, because of coronavirus restrictions. Nevertheless, she is absolutely right to point to operating department practitioners as key.

She will know that we have already announced an extra £100 million of investment in the health service here in Wales to help it with the recovery from the pandemic, and that is already helping to recruit additional theatre staff. But the Member made another important point: it isn't simply recruiting more staff who are already trained; it's making sure that the training system in Wales produces the staff that we will need for the future. And Health Education and Improvement Wales has set out its plans to do that. It has ambitious plans to increase the number of not simply doctors but all those other people on whom the health service depends, and operating department practitioners are amongst that number.