Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:36 pm on 27 February 2018.
The stay well survey actually, I thought, showed a population that was very keen to take part in responsible healthcare and understood that prevention is better than cure, and showed an enormous maturity on behalf of the public, something we tend to talk down sometimes, I think, here. And one of the things that they really picked up was that 76 per cent of the respondents wanted to see health services being offered more by employers, and employers taking more ownership of helping their employees to stay well. And we raised this last week—or the week before—in our debate on mental health, about the cost of mental health illness to the economy, and what we need to do as individuals and as employers to help people with mental health to do well in their workplaces. Can you please, leader of the house, perhaps outline what the Welsh Government can do to influence both public sector and, more importantly, the private sector to ensure that they stand by their employees and really help them through times of trouble?