Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:28 pm on 29 March 2017.
Cabinet Secretary, obviously earlier in the week it was well documented that four of the health boards are facing significant financial challenges, double what their equivalents over the other side of Offa’s Dyke are facing, and it will be a real struggle for many of these health boards to be able to reconfigure some of their services whilst managing those budgetary pressures. How confident are you that the four health boards—in particular, Hywel Dda has a budget deficit of nearly 10 per cent for this year—will be able to reconfigure services to the primary sector, given the pressures they face, on their budget, just managing what they’ve got?