4. Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on the Transformation Fund

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:14 pm on 19 February 2019.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 4:14, 19 February 2019

Thank you for the largely constructive approach to the, I think, six or seven areas of questioning. On your first point, saying we are behind some UK areas in health and social care working together—we're actually ahead of others as well. It was a fact that was acknowledged by Stephen Dorrell—a former Conservative health Minister, now the chair of the NHS Confederation—when he came to the Welsh NHS Confederation dinner. He acknowledged that the NHS England plan talks about needing to have that much greater, more integrated relationship, but he acknowledged that we're further ahead in that journey here in Wales. We're not always very good at getting, if you like, network news acknowledgement of what we're actually up to here in Wales.