Local Health Boards' Budget Deficit

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:16 pm on 27 June 2018.

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Photo of Caroline Jones Caroline Jones UKIP 2:16, 27 June 2018

Cabinet Secretary, my local health board, ABMU, has a deficit of over £3 million a month. In order to address this deficit, the health board are proposing to reduce the number of hospital beds that are available. Cabinet Secretary, given that bed occupancy rates in my region are nearly 90 per cent, do you consider the proposal to reduce the number of available beds to be safe?