11. Short Debate Fighting for Future Services — The case for protecting services at Withybush hospital

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:52 pm on 20 March 2019.

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Photo of Helen Mary Jones Helen Mary Jones Plaid Cymru 6:52, 20 March 2019

I'm very grateful to Paul Davies for giving me a few moments of his valuable time. I associate myself with the remarks that he's made. There is a real issue of trust with those local communities, not only in Pembrokeshire, but across the Hywel Dda health board. Simply, they don't believe that they will be listened to when they raise their voices. The underlying problem here is that we have health service managers trying to impose a model of service that works very well in big English urban centres on rural communities in Wales. It is time for this to stop. It is time for us to look at more comparable countries like Canada, like Australia, like Scotland, as more appropriate models for healthcare that will really work for our rural communities. Paul Davies is right: the people in the communities we represent have a right to expect us to speak up for them.