<p>The General Practitioner Crisis in Mid and West Wales</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:30 pm on 13 September 2016.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 1:30, 13 September 2016

I’m grateful to the First Minister for that reply, but, as he knows, fine words butter no parsnips, and, for the people of Dwyfor Meirionnydd, I don’t think that they will derive much consolation from what he said. As he’s aware, a surgery in Porthmadog that served 7,500 people recently announced that it would see only those who are acutely unwell. In Blaenau Ffestiniog, a practice of four doctors has now been reduced to one, with a handful of locums, and, often, there’s nobody available. Over half the GPs in Dwyfor are over 55. Is it not time for the Government to actually get its act together and make the health service fit for the people of Wales in the area of Dwyfor Meirionnydd?