Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:20 pm on 24 May 2016.
Indeed, and the Member will know that waiting times for diagnostic tests have plummeted. It was not acceptable that they were so long, and there’s been a significant decrease of 20 per cent in a very short space of time, and that is something that we intend to continue with, in terms of that trend continuing in the future. But it’s important as well that, for many people who go and see GPs, quite often they don’t need to—they could go and see a pharmacist, they could go and see a GP practice nurse. We need to make sure that the message of Choose Well continues to be reinforced in the future and that people don’t automatically assume that, if you go to the doctor, you must come out with a prescription. So, yes, there’s a duty, of course, on all of us to ensure that that message is understood.