Services for Stroke Survivors in South-east Wales

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:22 pm on 19 September 2018.

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Photo of Dawn Bowden Dawn Bowden Labour 2:22, 19 September 2018

Cabinet Secretary, throughout the summer recess I've been taking a close look at local healthcare services in my own constituency, and can I say that I appreciated you taking some time out to come up to Merthyr and join me in one of those discussion sessions? In this and other work that I do, I continue to be so impressed by the work of the professions allied to medicine and their key role in rehabilitation and preventative healthcare. So, would you agree that, as we talk about shaping the future off our health services, it's not just about innovation or even necessarily about more money, but it is about strengthening the best practice, such as the early discharge and rehabilitation after a stroke, which is supported by allied health professionals as an effective and cost-efficient way of improving those services?