Healthcare Providers and the Planning Process

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:17 pm on 3 October 2018.

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Photo of Lesley Griffiths Lesley Griffiths Labour 2:17, 3 October 2018

Well, you will have heard me say in an earlier answer to Bethan Sayed that I am looking at whether health boards should be mandatory consultees in this decision making. I think, in many cases, the capacity of primary care facilities is really an important, material consideration when you are planning the merits of having a development in a certain area.

I do expect local health boards to be engaged in the preparation of LDPs with planning authorities, given their responsibility, obviously, for providing primary care services for the local population. I think it's really important that GP surgeries, on an individual basis, feed into that process also.