Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:36 pm on 4 October 2017.
Again, this is a message we hear time and time again, that this isn’t a specifically Welsh issue, this is a problem throughout the UK, whether it be recruitment or retention or whatever else, but we know that this is a service that is being provided in other parts of the UK. In fact, the North Bristol NHS Trust stroke lead has said that the failure to get a grip on things in Cardiff and in Wales, in particular, means that Wales is becoming the laughing stock of the international neurovascular community. I don’t, and patients and staff don’t, want people talking about our NHS in that way. Can’t you see that there is a big, big mismatch between what you and Welsh Government say, the expectations you like to create, and the reality for NHS staff and patients, who, frankly, deserve better?