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I want to start by asking Professor Archibald about his high staff turnover rate of around 13 per cent. What are the main challenges for retaining staff in your area?

Before I ask my question, I draw people’s attention to my entry in the register of members’ interests. I am a GP and have recently worked in the NHS Dumfries and Galloway and NHS Lanarkshire health board areas.

Professor Archibald talked about figures. You implement a continuous flow model, which means that patients move out of accident and emergency whether or not a bed is available for them. They might sit in a corridor, side room or waiting room or might sit as an extra patient in a ward environment. Where are those patients captured in the data?

What is important is that, if no one is sure whether mesh has been implanted, if a woman calls the helpline, they need to be able to find out.

I have one question that I will direct to Louise Thornton if I may.

Last week, we heard about top female athletes in sports that are not normally very well represented; for example, judo or mountain biking—sports that are very big at the Olympics. However, those ladies are not household names. Take “Trans World Sport” for example, which was on when I was a kid. Everyone who is about my age knows kabaddi, because it was covered by “Trans World Sport”, but it is not exactly a mainstream sport. Have you considered using the BBC’s position to provide a sports package in which we can see women from this country excelling in sports such as judo throughout the year, so that there is not just one big bang at the Olympics?

I will bring in Eilidh Doyle and Connie Ramsay on this. I am looking at the BBC Sport website. The first time that it speaks about women’s sport is quite a long way down the page, and it is a rugby video highlights package.

Gemma Fay, you spoke about Trans World Sport, which I wanted to speak about. It is free to air. When I was a kid, everyone knew about kabaddi. We played it in the playground and it got banned, because we had injuries.

I have to say to Gemma Fay that it is not fair that she gets to play five-a-side football, because no one will ever be able to score past her.

You said that there were not many women in the sport, but there are even fewer ethnic minority women. Connie Ramsay, too, talked about how women do not go to the gym, but the fact is that even fewer ethnic minority women do so.

As you guys are all elite sportspeople, I want to talk about elite sports. My question is specifically for Eilidh Doyle. Why does elite sport not have big ethnic minority participation? For example, we can all run but that does not translate into participation in elite sport. I would have liked to ask all the witnesses that question, but as we simply do not have the time, I will focus on athletics.

I have a question for Gemma Fay and Priyanaz Chatterji. Gemma, you have talked about business opportunities and money with regard to the male avenue, but I was interested to see that the Indian Premier League has created and is building a women’s game and, as a result, will get sponsorship and other things for it. Is that the type of model that you were talking about? I would also be interested to hear a cricketer’s view of such an approach.

I have a couple of questions, if I may. Eilidh Doyle and Connie Ramsay both spoke about coverage. However, I direct my question to Gemma Fay.

I am an Arsenal fan, and the Arsenal women’s team is very well represented by Tim Stillman, Ian Wright, Arseblog and a podcast that is exclusively about Arsenal, so I can tell you that Kim Little was injured or that Vivianne Miedema hurt her anterior cruciate ligament. I can tell you things about the women’s game that I could never have told you five or 10 years ago because there is now dedicated coverage, which I find really fascinating. Are we missing that in Scotland?

The fact is that we all knew about it because it was on TV and we all played it. Is there a lack of coverage of judo, for example? We do not have a highlights package. We do not have a free-to-air TV channel where people can see judo every day.