As I have said in this House previously, the reality is that pandemics disrupt health systems. All services reduce procedures in order to keep patients and health workers safe. Every effort is being made to reduce the disruption of planned care. Since the alert level 4 was lifted on 21 September 2021, many of the DHBs have reduced waiting times in their planned care schedule. DHBs have put a number of measures in place to maintain delivery. This includes prioritising urgent and non-deferrable cases, outsourcing where possible, running additional surgical lists and extending the use of providers that can deliver minor procedures in a day-case environment. We know that the Auckland based DHBs—Auckland, Counties Manukau, and Waitematā—have continued to be at the centre of the response to the latest outbreak and continue to see disruption to their schedules, but even these DHBs have worked immensely hard to keep delivering services and have lifted their delivery.