Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 21 March 2017.
How many reports do we need, First Minister? The report highlighted that 9 per cent of patients were not being given enough water to drink. There are other areas where progress is non-existent—no progress on a computerised catering information system, and that problem was identified back in 2011. Not a single health board has a named director with responsibility for nutrition, and not a single health board has achieved 100 per cent compliance with nutritional care pathway training, despite it being mandatory since its introduction in 2011.
What you hear from management is very different to what we, as Assembly Members, hear from patients and our constituents. When can we expect to see some leadership from you on hospital nutrition? When will we get beyond apologies and claims of lessons learned to see that these simple, basic problems in the NHS have to be prevented before they cause serious harm to some of our patients?