<p>Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:41 pm on 9 November 2016.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 2:41, 9 November 2016

I thank the Member for her question. She’s right to point out the significant progress that has been made on reducing these levels of infection rates, but there is much more that needs to be done. Every health board has an improvement target each year. Not every health board has managed to achieve that. It’s a regular feature of accountability meetings with both chief executives and me in terms of contact with chairs, and there are often very simple hygiene standards to be addressed that will help with infection rates. There is also a challenge in some parts of the population where there is, if you like, a reservoir of some of these particular infections. But the real challenge is for the health service to do what it could and should do, and we recognise the need for further improvement and that does start with basic hygiene.