Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:25 pm on 7 December 2016.
I think there are two issues you raise in your question. The first is the point about treating the underlying cause, so whether that’s different forms of activity, and where there is a mental health challenge that leads to people having a sleep problem in the first place. The second, then, is what happens afterwards in terms of the treatment, and I think the Aneurin Bevan centre is a good example of where we have some specialism. There’s more work being developed with the Brain Research Imaging Centre at Cardiff University as well, and it’s important to understand what the evidence tells us about what we should then do.
I will consider, but the service in particular is a first in understanding the level of demand that exists, what it could and should do, and then how it funds that accurately with other partners as well. So, I understand why you make a bid for extra funding on this particular issue, but I need to see the evidence on what we could and should do and how that matches up with the need and demand that we have, and how we can probably meet that within the system.