Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:43 pm on 19 September 2018.
The result of your caution, you see, is that Betsi Cadwaladr has been in special measures now for over three years. I'm clear in my mind that patients in the north of Wales deserve better. And here we have a model that I believe could work for the whole of Wales after being rolled out in the health board with the biggest population and serving the biggest area. People living in the north of Wales can see the problem. And staff, who tell me that they like this idea of doing something different to try to get to grips with the problem in the way that this Government have failed to do so far, are frustrated and they're under pressure. By putting a model in place that protects primary care budgets and keeps people out of secondary care, which allows secondary care to concentrate on its many challenges and provides a new focus on integration—. Well, I think by doing that we might just start heading in the right direction. Isn't it time to say that, with special measures not working, it's time for radical measures instead?