Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:33 pm on 19 September 2018.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 2:33, 19 September 2018

So, given what you've just said about the role that you see the regional boards performing, can you explain then how that ties in to the national transformation board? Will they be the ones who are responsible, ultimately, for the transformation of the national health service? And, as I'm sure you are aware, business process re-engineering is a highly defined skill and it takes a lot of experience to do it successfully, especially in an organisation as large as the NHS—and please accept that, when I refer to the NHS, I refer to NHS and social care, because the two are integral to each other. So, I'd like to understand what additional resources you might be putting in place to support both the national board and the regional partnership boards in terms of people with absolute transformational business process re-engineering skills. And when will you be measuring—or how will you put in place a series of key performance indicators so that we know how well they are doing and what timescales they are doing it to?