Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:47 pm on 28 March 2017.
In fairness, Betsi is in special measures, run by the Welsh Government, but you can’t divorce the ability to put money into the health service from maintaining the services that people rely on, and my question to you was about the endorsement of the Cabinet Secretary’s point that no services would be lost because of money. When Abertawe Bro Morgannwg, one of the four health boards, is projected to have a worse deficit position next year—£52 million, as opposed to £39 million this year from a break-even position last year—the statement just doesn’t work, or it’s unbelievable, First Minister. How are you going to be able to maintain services when four of the six health boards have such a chronic deficit position and, ultimately, waiting times are constantly going up?