9. 9. Short Debate: Primary Care Provision in the Llanharan Area

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:56 pm on 20 September 2017.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 6:56, 20 September 2017

First of all, thank you for the hard work that you’ve done on this as well, and also for highlighting why CHCs are so important to our local communities. There’s been some difficulty in getting a new public meeting together to update the community on this, partly because of the unwillingness of representatives of the practice to attend, but the reasons they give for their unwillingness to attend are quite interesting. The first is that they haven’t heard from the steering group that was talked about—it’s got to be at least a year ago now—to help smooth the way on this, but secondly and more importantly is that they haven’t heard from ABMU. This is a health board that’s already had some difficulties dealing with surgery issues in Porthcawl, and if they’re not even prepared to engage now with you, hopefully, on this, then there are serious questions for me about how willing they’re going to be to engage in GP cluster conversations, which are going to be critical to the vision we all have for the future.