We continue to invest significant financial resources in primary care and work collaboratively with BMA Wales, the Royal College of General Practitioners, and health boards to support hard-working GPs as part of improving primary care services for our public. Our choice to have a constructive dialogue with GPs stands in direct contrast to the approach across our border. We believe that we have made the right choice.

The Government recognises the essential contribution of social care workers to good-quality care. We are implementing a comprehensive range of actions, including tackling zero-hours contracts and low pay, registering workers, developing career pathways and improving health and safety, all of which raise the status and standing of workers.

The health board has maintained good performance in some key areas, including cancer and ambulance performance, while they have virtually eliminated over eight-week diagnostic waits. However, I have made it clear that performance in other areas, including for example orthopaedic waiting times, needs to improve.

We are increasing funding for mental health services in Wales by an additional £20 million this year, taking the total spend to £629 million. The health board will determine how its increased allocation is used to improve services across Powys, based on its assessment of local need.

We have been working closely with stakeholders to develop a dementia strategic action plan. The plan is due to be published in the autumn and will set out the key actions to be delivered by the Welsh Government and external partners to better support people affected by dementia.

Health boards are responsible for providing safe, sustainable and high-quality care for their population. Our neurological conditions delivery plan sets out our ambitions in respect of treatment and support for people with conditions such as epilepsy. The plan is currently being updated and will be published later in the summer.

Last month, I launched the second phase of our national and international campaign promoting Wales as a fantastic country for nurses in all specialities and at all stages of their career to train, work and live in Wales. In the short space of time the nurse campaign has been live, it is already receiving excellent feedback.

We have a well-established national population bowel screening programme in Wales with over 150,000 men and women screened during 2015-16. We continually look for ways to increase uptake and recently announced new investment in better and more user-friendly testing, which will be rolled out during 2018-19.