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Let us ask the King’s Fund. I am sorry—my lenses have gone, and I cannot see anyone’s faces.

What other funding models might be appropriate for a national care service?

For all the other organisations with depleted reserves and no financial resilience, that is often where some small capital investment would have taken place. Ms Davis, is that relevant to Screen Scotland?

I will make an observation. It has been great to hear some of those examples, but they all seem to be focused on the elder end of the population—one of the examples given was about dementia. I suppose that what I am asking about with regard to health and wellbeing is how we level up the agenda for those in deprived areas and how work in the sector can provide a springboard for people in an abusive environment and give them the confidence to leave. That is the longer-term issue that I am trying to get at. We should be trying to rescue people earlier in their lives instead of trying to treat their diseases at the end of them. As I have said, though, it was great to hear some of those examples, especially with regard to dementia, so thank you very much.

You have answered some of the questions that I was going to ask in responding to other members, but I have a follow-up question relating to the fact that your organisation has no capital budget. We have just heard from Mr Ruskell about the renewal programmes that are needed for the industry and the sector. How will the lack of capital impact your ability to kick-start that renewal?

How I frame my question will come as no surprise, as I am moving to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. At that committee, it was mentioned that every committee should take a health approach when considering how things are assessed and how funding is allocated.

My question is for Fiona Sturgeon Shea. Your submission has a section called “The impact of the performing arts”. That refers to health and wellbeing, which is great to see. Have you ever measured that? If you can demonstrate the health and wellbeing benefit that your sector brings, have you tried to translate that into a case for more funding? Will you explain more about the tangibles that are being realised in relation to health and wellbeing?

Earlier, we heard that all policy should be focused on healthcare, and we have heard from members of the panel that workforce planning should come before a remobilisation plan. We have also heard about the diverse careers that are available to people in health and social care—including dentistry; I will not ignore that one.

My question is for Sue Robertson, given that we have a short timeframe. Is the cap on Scottish young people getting into medical schools and universities in Scotland negatively affecting long-term recruitment and our ability to create a sustainable workforce plan?

I am a councillor at the City of Edinburgh Council and my salary is donated in full via the give-as-you-earn scheme. I own 100 per cent of the issued share capital of MEDinburgh Ltd, which was a company involved in healthcare sales and marketing. It was deregistered on Companies House at the weekend and has not traded since May 2021.

There is a lot of synergy in what we have heard about tackling health inequalities. I am interested in what Professor Burns said about current policies focusing on a top-down approach and the need to focus on a bottom-up approach if we are to help young people when they are in difficulties and prevent their early death from suicide, violence, drugs or alcohol. We live in a world of finite resources, and we want to focus on a bottom-up approach, so what do we do about the top-down approach, because we cannot be everywhere? Right now, our resources are going towards tackling waiting lists, and hip and knee replacements are for the older generation, but you said that we need to focus on supporting the young. How do we square that with the public? How best should we do that?

I have a quick follow-up question. Professor Burns, you spoke about how difficult it is to get the data. In the example you gave, members of front-line staff showed a lot of initiative and did some digging around. In terms of data sharing, how important is it for us to have systems that talk to one another?