I note that patients have been contacted to put their minds at ease that the practice is not at risk of closure. But people are very, very uneasy, the length and breadth of Wales, as surgery after surgery hands back the keys or have their contracts ended. As in Ruabon, what we see in many other places is a failure to be able to recruit the adequate number of GPs to keep a practice going, and that’s why we need to face up to the crisis in training and recruitment and retention of doctors in primary care with much more urgency than is certainly currently the case. I’m not suggesting the Government is doing nothing about it, but it’s this urgency that we need to see much more evidence of.

What we’re seeing in Ruabon now is happening all too frequently in Betsi Cadwaladr. Previously, your Government has hinted that bringing GP services in-house isn’t a problem. You’re cool about that. This hasn’t been regarded as something that should be of huge concern. Some might see this as a sign that you’d be more than happy to get rid of the independent contractor model anyway. So, perhaps you’re not doing enough to help surgeries recruit until they can go in-house. I’ll leave you to comment on that. But, will you commission independent research examining what the impact on patients is when this happens? Because they are the most important ones in all this.