I think it's fairly evident that, here today, many of our Members, cross party, recognise the urgency for continued improvement in our provision for mental healthcare support. We are all too aware that mental health problems do not discriminate; they effect mothers, children, fathers, expectant mothers, young people, adults, the middle age, the elderly generation and those with other ailments and diagnosed conditions compounding the problem. While attending to mental health requires a considerable degree of self-care and the implementation of healthy lifestyle habits, for victims of adverse and traumatic experiences and severe mental health crises, proper mental health intervention and care is essential. Yet, our mental health services and the current organisation and management of our health boards are currently, in some instances, too ill-equipped to deal with this demand. The quality of care that is required to prevent a further increase of suicide rates—among young people and male adults in particular—substance abuse and debilitating mental health illness is profound.

As an Assembly Member—a constituency Member with an office in the town of Llandudno—sadly, I see too much anecdotal evidence of people who simply cannot access mental health support or any form of counselling or anything, at a time when they present at a time of major crisis. Indeed, Presiding Officer, the training and retention of qualified medical staff and professionals is one of my chief concerns. According to Mind, as part of the GP training curriculum, currently, just one of 21 clinical modules are focused on mental health, and the number of rotations that trainee doctors complete in a mental health environment has been decreasing in the last five years. It's going backwards. Yet, these trends are not reflecting that mental health issues are now the modern-day epidemic and the fact that a third of GP appointments now relate to mental health issues.

So, I ask the Minister, in all honesty and in all sincerity, how can the Welsh Government ensure that trainee medical professionals and doctors are receiving the training—the relevant training—that is really needed for our current generational needs, whilst—