Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:40 pm on 25 April 2018.
It is something that concerns my constituents. In January, you apologised for cancelled surgery, saying, at that point, that is was the onset of winter, which came from somewhere, that was to blame. But surgery is still being cancelled week on week. I’ve had a number of constituents coming to see me recently to tell me about treatments being cancelled not once, not twice, not three times, but even more than that. There was one man who was starting to see mental health problems emerge in his wife because of the strain of having these treatments cancelled time and time again. The question is: what do we do about this? Is there scope to introduce financial incentives in order for health boards not to cancel? Is there scope to compensate patients even, or why not just ensure that these treatments aren’t cancelled time and time again?