Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:02 pm on 19 July 2017.
Well, it’s a good example of the fact that within each of our health boards there are examples of real excellence, and the drive is to have more care delivered closer to home, which means people don’t need to stay unnecessarily within a hospital setting. Again, the point is that significant areas of activity that would previously have been undertaken by doctors are now undertaken by different staff. Having a nurse-led intervention is a good example of, and another example of, the sort of reform we want to see in our service, delivered progressively, that isn’t about bricks and mortar, but is about how we make better use of our staff in different settings. I think it’s what we need to do, and there is an expectation within the public, and I think there’s a real desire amongst the staff themselves to design new models of care to do just that.