Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:27 pm on 25 January 2017.
The health board, of course, is in special measures and has been for a year and a half, and I agree with many of the points that have been made on the problems that exist. But would you agree with me that there are some more fundamental issues that need to be tackled and would you agree that three specific things need to happen to that end? One we’ve already heard about is that we need more doctors and nurses to respond to demand. The second point, of course, is that much more needs to be done to integrate health and social care services. And, thirdly, we need to reopen beds in community hospitals to facilitate that patient flow from general hospitals, otherwise, of course, we are not going to tackle the fundamental problems.