Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:45 pm on 27 September 2016.
He seems to be making a case for the establishment of a district general hospital in the area if he says that travel is a problem. Yes, it is. We know that travel in some parts of Wales means that people have to travel further than normal, but that’s because they get a better service than a district general hospital. What we have, of course, is Ysbyty Alltwen, which is about, I think, 7 miles away from Blaenau Ffestiniog, and indeed the promise of investment into new health facilities, so that people don’t have to go into hospital in the first place. For many, many years, we’ve had a health service in this country that was hospital focused. We intend to make sure that more and more people can stay at home, get the support that they need at home, without having to go into hospital.