Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:45 pm on 17 October 2018.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 2:45, 17 October 2018

I'm committed to delivering 'A Healthier Wales', which is our joint plan that has a real focus on shifting our investment and activity into local healthcare. I've said before on a regular number of occasions that trying to have an artificial figure on the amount to go into one part of the system is not the right way to go about doing that. We've set out not just a transformation fund, but we've set out additional resource to go into that transformation fund as well. That is joint funding for health and social care to choose how to use together on joint priorities. We set up, for the first time, additional money directly from health to go into social care as well. That is a choice that I have made as a portfolio Minister because I recognise the need for the system to be properly funded across social care as well as health. So, I am keeping the promises I have made to health and local government on the way in which we will use resources to deliver the joint plan that they have all signed up to. That is exactly what I will not be blown away from doing because it is the right thing to do for our citizens because that will deliver better care, more integrated care and care that is generally closer to home.