Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:53 pm on 29 March 2017.
Can I just ask you, Minister, given that this health board is in special measures—? We are almost two years into those special measures and one of the reasons it was put into special measures was because of the performance against referral-to-treatment waiting times, including on orthopaedic waiting times. Over the period it’s been in special measures, run, effectively, by the Welsh Government for those services, those waiting times have gone up. Do you accept some responsibility for the poor performance at the Betsi Cadwaladr university health board, and will you apologise to those constituents in my constituency who are waiting 112 weeks for routine appointments at Glan Clwyd for their orthopaedic surgery?