Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:40 pm on 16 May 2017.
The unavoidable truth is that the situation is dynamic, because we don’t know what we are going to get within this place to then divide up to then pass on to actors and agents outside here, but having a strategy and a shape for what we want to achieve should help that in framing how those commissioning decisions are made, where they’re made individually by local authorities, of whatever political leadership—this is a challenge across the country; it’s not just for your party, mine or any other—it’s all parties and independents that are running local government in Wales at this point in time. It’s also a challenge for health boards in working with their partners as well in trying to decide and determine how they properly meet the action plan and the focus and the attention that we will have with it. So, there’s an honest point there, even though I think that everyone in this Chamber would want to be able to see these services planned on a much longer-term basis, consistent with the strategy and to have real and achievable outcome measures. We’ll do what we could and should do in designing a strategy to help with the best use of those resources.