Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:00 pm on 25 January 2017.
Cabinet Secretary, one of the ways to actually reduce the pressure on A&E units is to look at how the minor injuries units can be used effectively. Now, in Neath Port Talbot and in Singleton at the moment, there is consultation going on about reducing the hours, but part of the problem is the staffing and resourcing of those units. What action is the Welsh Government taking to actually improve the training of advanced nurse practitioners so that we can deliver MIU units that will work effectively, take pressure off A&E, allow patients to go through A&E and major units faster, and therefore also allow patients to be seen within hours rather than perhaps longer hours? And, from personal experience, I know that feeling.