Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:33 pm on 25 January 2017.
Could I, following on from the question that introduced this, thank the Cabinet Secretary for his visit this morning to Tynycoed surgery in Sarn? And he saw the enthusiasm and the expertise of a wide range of professionals, but not only the GPs, not only the allied care professionals, but social care, healthcare professionals, people involved in social enterprises, people involved in the third sector. And the whole thrust of this was to move away, towards a system where it’s to do with well-being rather than the repair costs further down the river.
Does he share my hope, and those of other colleagues here, that these innovative collaborations—like the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Local Health Board cluster model—pump primed by Welsh Government funding, will ultimately prove those benefits of keeping people healthier for longer in their communities, reducing the load on our ever-stretched NHS services and wider health services, and potentially delivering cost savings too, by making sure that people are kept healthier longer, rather than washing up into acute, secondary, or even our GP care services?