<p>Audiology Waiting Times </p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:29 pm on 9 November 2016.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 2:29, 9 November 2016

As I’ve explained in the first series of answers, it’s actually about the fact that Hywel Dda aren’t where they need to be. Some of it is about short-term measures and some of it is about the longer-term planning and the engagement with stakeholders to make sure that they do have a local plan. They should also benefit from some of the national pilot work being undertaken in other health board areas, both in terms of the point about staff mix, but also about how the pathway is designed. So, I can’t say to you, or any Member—and I wouldn’t try to—that I expect all these issues to be resolved within a period of a few weeks. But I do expect that, before the end of this performance year, and going into the next one, that there’ll be a model of care that is more sustainable, where stakeholders themselves will have been involved in designing that, and in designing the measures to understand what success looks like, and I do then expect Hywel Dda to have a more sustainable delivery mechanism for citizens within west Wales. That should also then transfer into learning across the rest of the country too.