Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:52 pm on 5 October 2016.
I thank the Member for the question and for highlighting the issue. I understand that the company is called Doctaly and it’s operating around the London area, but they’re looking to expand. I absolutely share your sentiment—I don’t think that this has any place in the health service here in Wales. It would not be something that we would fund or encourage here in Wales. We believe in a public service ethos for our health service here in Wales. We are supporting core values and principles for staff across the piece, and there is no way that I would encourage or support such measures to take place here in Wales. Our challenge is how we improve the service for the whole population, not how we give an advantage to people with money to take further advantage of a system that is here to serve all of us.