<p>Improving the Standard of NHS Services (South Wales Central)</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:01 pm on 7 December 2016.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 3:01, 7 December 2016

Thank you for that answer, Cabinet Secretary. I’m sure you, like me, would have been pretty horrified by the number of ambulances that are outside the A&E department at the University Hospital of Wales and the pressure that puts on the staff and the concern it puts in patients’ minds. I know I’ve asked for an urgent question on this particular matter because the issues around the A&E department are ongoing in Cardiff, around staffing issues. What measures are you taking to work with Cardiff and Vale to make sure that those pressures are alleviated, especially as we go into the busy Christmas period because it cannot be acceptable to have that many ambulances parked outside an A&E department, which are basically off call and unable to do the job that they’re doing around South Wales Central, of bringing people into our hospitals when they have an emergency.