Preventative Services

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 10 October 2018.

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Photo of Mike Hedges Mike Hedges Labour 1:33, 10 October 2018

Does the Cabinet Secretary accept that it is difficult to define preventative spend? For example, spending on home social care is preventative of needing residential care and hospital care. Expenditure on GPs is also preventative of hospital care. Would it not be better to define the expenditure as that which provides long-term good?