Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:36 pm on 13 December 2017.
Thank you for that. I think it's really important, because you as a Government have agreed to meet a certain set of standards and, some years on—let's be frank, it's eight years on—those standards are nowhere near being met. Rather than having 16 full-time nurses, we should actually have 30 of those full-time nurses. Inflammatory bowel disease is a horrible set of conditions. It taxes people, it makes them very, very ill and they've struggled to know how to cope, because it's very visible—or they feel it's very visible—it's very embarrassing and it's one of the diseases nobody ever likes to talk about. If we can look at how we can drive specialist help for those people—one nurse for every 0.25 million people—it doesn't seem too much to ask. I'd be very grateful to you if you had a good look at this and provided us with an update, as 2009—that was a promise made a long time ago.