Thanks very much. I'm very troubled to hear that yet another person is suffering and is in difficulty because of the waiting lists. Certainly, I'm very concerned about, in particular, people who I know are waiting for hip operations. I know somebody in this Chamber whose mother has recently undergone a hip replacement and was certainly in a lot of pain until that point. So, I'm very keen to get through this backlog as soon as possible. Obviously, I can't talk about any individual cases, but, if you would like to write to me about this case, I'll certainly look into it.

We have published a planned care recovery plan, and there are some very key targets that we're not hoping, but we are expecting, health boards to meet. So, I'm having regular meetings now with my officials just to make sure that we hold health boards' feet to the fire in terms of what we expect for delivery, making sure that they're keeping on track.

Just in relation to the S2 certificate, patients in Wales can still apply to their local health board for planned treatment in the EU and in Switzerland under the S2 route, but obviously they have to get permission from their health board before, if they expect the health board to underwrite that for them. So, there is a process to go through, and I'm very happy to write to you about the detail of that if that would be helpful.FootnoteLink