Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:47 pm on 27 November 2018.
Well, Llywydd, I can do no better than to repeat what I said: of course we are not doing that. The Welsh Government is utterly committed to delivering the NHS as a public service free at the point of use. Of course we sometimes have to use private contractors to fill off service difficulties and of course we are doing exactly as he suggested we should do, which is training the largest number of staff we can into the biggest number of training places that we have ever had in order to fill that off. And, actually, we're absolutely four square with the Labour Party at a UK level on this. We absolutely abhor privatisation of the NHS, and it's certainly not the principle or policy of this Government.