Cabinet Secretary, the White Paper suggested that there was a duplication of inspection roles with community health councils and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, but the community health council inspections are, in many ways, quite different. They are unannounced and can occur at any time, they include patients and relatives and they also involve follow-up visits. So, it seems to me that there's an important element there that is vital that we don't actually lose.

There was one further function, which, again, was part of the submission that I put in after various consultations, and that is the role of community health councils in the planning process. I've raised this with GP practices, but the fact is that where we have, for example, large housing developments, there is a lack of engagement, properly, with the health boards and with the local GP practices on the impact of such developments, and, also, there's the important role that community health councils could, perhaps, play within that context. It's essential that that role really is beefed up and it is an important one that we really need to develop that doesn't exist at the moment, but could be one of the very important functions that community health councils do play in the future.