Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:54 pm on 29 March 2017.
I’m ultimately responsible for everything that happens within the health service as the Cabinet Secretary for health. That means all the things that don’t go well, where people wait too long, as well as those things where people want to praise the service too. I don’t shy away from my responsibility in any regard whatsoever. In the discussion that I had recently with surgeons in Glan Clwyd, they were clear that they wanted to get over that those long waiters have not been waiting for routine appointments; they’re actually at the more complex end. But the challenge is, and they accept that—