Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:57 pm on 5 October 2016.
Cabinet Secretary, telemedicine is an important aspect of modern healthcare, which helps to get the right treatment and the diagnosis to the right people at the right time, in the right place, but it can also, as you said, help minimise the need for patients to physically attend their GP surgeries in a remote area, or even to wash up into A&E as a last back-stop. So, could I ask him, on that theme: would he join me in welcoming the launch, only yesterday, and the new roll-out of the non-emergency 111 service in Bridgend and Neath, and agree with me that this also is part of helping the public to access the most appropriate level of care for their needs in the right time frame, and that this service should also reduce that pressure on GPs and on A&E?