It's a pleasure to take part in this debate. It's one of a series we've had this afternoon when there is cross-party support for better services in a particular area.

Last week, I sponsored for the Time to Change Wales campaign an event here in the Senedd. As you will know, the goal of that campaign is to end mental health stigma and discrimination in Wales. Only a week before—I'm sure many other colleagues did the same as I did—I took part in the Time to Talk Day, a day that promotes the message that any day, any minute, any time is a good time to talk about mental health. I actually tweeted, with the aid, I must say, of my very able researcher, but anyway, I won't—[Laughter.] You know, you can't transform someone completely, can you? Not over night, anyway. But anyway, half way down Lloyd George Avenue, by the public art there of two faces talking, or kissing maybe—I don't know; it depends on your interpretation—I stood in front, and I talked about my own experiences and how important it is just to speak about mental health and well-being and recovery.

I do think that we could have even more world-class mental health services than we have at the moment, and we do have some. Let's acknowledge that. There is some great best practice in Wales. But I think, with a suite of really far-seeing legislation, such as the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 and, most recently, the parliamentary review, all highlighting a level of consensus across the Assembly, that we need more anticipation, more person-centred approaches, more inter-generational planning for what we should be delivering, and really ending barriers between physical and mental health in terms of what we're trying to achieve.

So, we need to build, I think, on the better practice when it emerges. I learned recently of Mind Cymru and their work with GPs and local health boards to roll out early prevention services. Now, this does seem to me to be key, and they have active monitoring. I'm glad to see that the scheme of active monitoring has been supported by Welsh Government funding. So far, active monitoring has exceeded all initial expectations, with 38 GP surgeries across Wales offering patients services under active monitoring, and some 433 patients at the moment having help. Of those patients, 71 of people experiencing clinical levels of anxiety and panic attacks fully recovered, with 54 per cent of people experiencing clinical levels of depression fully recovering.

Can I say, I suspect I'm not the only Assembly Member, but I'm certainly one, who has had a number of episodes of panic attack? It is horribly debilitating. It has a huge effect on your confidence and what you think you're going to be able to do. When you get through that, and when you've had the treatment, the support, whatever it is, the fulfilment you feel, the well-being you feel, and the stability you feel is something beyond measure. I think any services that get people to that better condition are to be hugely valued. They're not often very intensive. We're not talking about people in serious illness. Let's remember that. Anxiety and depression and panic attacks: they may accompany more serious illness, but people who are not seriously ill in terms of their mental health can still be prone to these things. So, mild to moderate ill health can be very, very debilitating, and has huge effects on the economy as well, and family life and all sorts of things.