Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:42 pm on 17 October 2018.
Professor McClelland has looked at the NHS in Wales and how it's run probably more forensically than anybody else and one of her concerns is that your Government struggles to get health boards to do what you want them to do.
Now, in the most recent budget, your Government has chosen to add over £500 million extra to health and social care—on the face of it, good news; we all want to see investment in health and social care. But, with plenty of other areas of need and other departments, other public bodies, facing cuts, who could blame them for asking, 'Is this really investment or is it just a bail-out?' So, in light of Siobhan McClelland's concerns, are you in control of what happens to that £500 million or is it just going to disappear into a black hole of financial mismanagement?