Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:05 pm on 26 September 2017.
Thank you for the question and the focus point there on, as you say, the third most common neurological condition, and that is part of what we expect to see moving forward with this plan, because you can’t say you want a plan for an improvement in these services if you then ignore the third most common condition. I am pleased to hear directly from you that the meeting that we’ve had has made a difference for that group of patients, because I do recognise that the service was not in the place where we would want it to be, and the focus and the attention we brought with the chair of the health board and the leader from the health board—I’m pleased to see that’s making a difference. And the challenge now that this plan period covers is how we make that generally sustainable, and I think the continuous interest from Members such as you will ensure that this is a condition that isn’t going to slip off the agenda for our health boards.