Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:13 pm on 19 July 2017.
I’m grateful for that reply, but the Cabinet Secretary will know that the national survey for Wales found that 39 per cent of respondents find it difficult to make a convenient appointment to see a GP, and 62 per cent overall were not satisfied with the service provided by the NHS in Wales. Since 2004, as a proportion of NHS funding, general practice has declined from 10 per cent of the total to 8 per cent—admittedly, that’s gone up recently—but the British Medical Association say that in order to get to a satisfactory position, this should be 12 per cent of what we currently spend on the NHS. Can the Cabinet Secretary give us an idea of what response he would make to the BMA about that figure?