It's well established that your Government's record on NHS waiting times is far from satisfactory. For example, the auditor general has recently reported a 55 per cent growth since 2015 in the number of patients whose follow-up appointments are delayed twice as long as they should be. Now, one area where targets are currently being met is in radiology, but this is because health boards are increasingly outsourcing to the private sector. The auditor general's report notes that waiting time performance has been helped by securing additional capacity from the private sector in response to what he describes as

'difficulties with recruitment and retention of staff, outdated and insufficient scanning equipment, along with IT weaknesses' within the NHS. Isn't what is happening at the moment a policy of privatisation by stealth as a sticking plaster to mask longer term structural problems within the Welsh NHS?