<p>Health Services in Pembrokeshire </p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:25 pm on 5 October 2016.

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Photo of Mr Simon Thomas Mr Simon Thomas Plaid Cymru 2:25, 5 October 2016

Cabinet Secretary, as you know, the parents of Pembrokeshire have lost the neonatal services at Withybush hospital, supposedly to have a better service provided at Glangwili, but the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health says that neonatal services in Wales are overstretched and under incredible pressure, putting the safety of the sickest babies at risk, and they say that only two out of the 10 neonatal units have enough nurses to staff all their cots. What assurance can you give to the parents of Pembrokeshire, therefore, that this move from Pembrokeshire to Carmarthenshire, and from one hospital to another, is actually going to result in the long term in a better staffing ratio and a better service?