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Yes, absolutely.

As well as being small health boards, there are small teams within the boards that you oversee. When there are complaints within those small teams, how are those managed? Given that people might be working in teams with single-digit numbers of staff, how are they encouraged to speak up when there are issues?

How do the boards monitor bullying and harassment in your workforces? I am reflecting on the nature of small teams and where that can cause issues, particularly if someone is on a small island in Orkney or Shetland, where they know the whole community and could be raising an issue with their next-door neighbour or someone across the road.

What actions could be taken to better enable women and girls with disabilities to take part in sport and physical activity? I ask Lynne Glen to respond first, if that is okay.

Yes, absolutely. I think that Robert Nesbitt wants to comment.

Are we doing that work well, in terms of joining up the physical health aspect with mental health and other issues? Is that cross-organisation approach working and are we recognising that individuals will have varying impacts from different parts of their life? Or are there areas where we can do better?

Yes, please—sorry.

How do we ensure that we support trans people—and non-binary people in particular, who are often lost in some of these conversations—to participate in sport and on-going physical activity? Much of our inquiry is about physical activity. Given the issues that we have seen with the way that trans people and non-binary people—who, as I have said, are often excluded from some of the narrative—are portrayed in the media, how do we allow spaces such as gyms and participative classes to be safe for them?

Good morning. Obviously, at the moment, we have the complex mesh surgical service, and there will undoubtedly be women who need surgery further into the future. Many will have surgery that might not resolve their symptoms but that might remove the mesh. Therefore, I am interested in how that service will evolve as women go through the process of surgical intervention.

Will the service evolve to treat some of the symptoms, such as pain? I do not think that it is entirely appropriate for some of the women to end up in generalised pain clinics, because of the issues that they have faced. What should the next evolution of the service look like, and how long should the service be in place?

Absolutely—you have pre-empted my next question wonderfully. We want a lot of care to be delivered in the community but, as you have said, much of the service has to be delivered in certain places due to its specialism. Is thought being given to how women who have had surgery and been discharged, but who feel that they need some of that wider non-surgical holistic support, can be referred back quickly so that they do not have the sorts of wait that there have been for accessing the service in the first place?