Thank you for the question, Joyce Watson. I recognise that there is real concern about the future of health in almost every part of the country. Given the commentary about healthcare services in west Wales and the extremity of the language, it is no wonder that people are concerned.

I repeat again: the challenge of having a paediatric service is part of what we are being guided by, and its relationship with the A&E service as well. There are no plans to change the A&E service. We are working with the health board, and it’s the health board’s responsibility to work with its stakeholders, to listen to its clinicians and the public, to meet the desire for a service, but to actually meet the need to deliver that service in a genuinely safe manner that delivers the high-quality care that I expect for every citizen right across Wales.

So, I reiterate again that, on the paediatric service, we are listening to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. They have undertaken another review again, at the end of September, to further inform where we are. I do not believe there is any need to scaremonger or to project fear about the future of A&E services in Withybush or further within west Wales.