Thank you for your statement, Cabinet Secretary. I would also like to place on record my thanks to Dr Ruth Hussey and the panel for keeping me and my team regularly updated on the review’s progress. The interim report starkly lays out the challenges facing health and social care in Wales.

We are at an evolutionary moment with our health and care systems: we adapt or we perish. This is not a problem that can be solved by simply throwing money at it. As Dr Hussey correctly identifies, we have to make urgent systemic changes to the way we deliver care. We have to work smarter. We have to spend smarter. Cabinet Secretary, I welcome this interim report and the findings set out by Dr Hussey and her team. We now have a much clearer view of the challenge facing us as a nation and the challenge facing us as politicians.

I am convinced that we have to change the way we deliver health and social care in the future. It is now up to us here, in this Chamber, to convince the public of the need for change and to engage with them in designing our future health and care system. Cabinet Secretary, how do you plan to encourage as many members of the public as possible to engage with the parliamentary review?

The panel suggests that a new number of models of care could be trialled and evaluated.Cabinet Secretary, if you can answer at this stage, how long will the trials run, and how do you plan to run such trials concurrently?

Whichever new models of care we adopt, they will all rely on new technology and shared data. Cabinet Secretary, can you outline the steps your Government is taking to improve the NHS Wales Informatics Service to ensure it can adapt to future needs?

However care is delivered, we need a workforce to deliver it. We need to encourage more young people to become doctors, nurses, physios, occupational therapists and pharmacists. We also need experts in machine learning and big data, computer network specialists and programmers. Cabinet Secretary, what is the Welsh Government doing to encourage more young people to study STEM subjects to ensure we have the workforce we need in future?

It is vital we deliver the necessary changes as quickly as possible if we are to ensure that future generations will have a health and social care system that meets their needs. Regarding our infrastructure, as has previously been mentioned, if people are to be encouraged to stay in their homes, we must make sure that, with an ageing population, new housing is built to recognise the changing needs in building regulations to accommodate disabled needs. Our infrastructure regarding public transport is, in future, also going to have to change.

I look forward to working with the parliamentary review over the coming months, to receiving the final report, and working with you, Cabinet Secretary, to deliver the recommendations made by Dr Hussey and the panel. Diolch yn fawr. Thank you.