2. Business Statement and Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:05 pm on 18 June 2019.

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Photo of Leanne Wood Leanne Wood Plaid Cymru 3:05, 18 June 2019

I'm compelled to raise yet again the centralisation agenda of this Government, which has had such an adverse impact upon the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant. I regularly receive concerns and complaints from both patients and staff. The decision to remove consultants from the Royal Glamorgan, relocating them to Merthyr, has not had a positive impact. The removal of paediatric consultants from the Royal Glamorgan has been halted for now, and I would like to see a decision be taken to halt that on a permanent basis. I'm now hearing deep concerns about consultants being removed from the accident and emergency department at the Royal Glamorgan, sparking genuine fears that, in the medium to long term, the A&E may close, and I share those concerns. I'd therefore like a statement from the Government about the progress of the centralisation agenda, allied with a careful analysis of patient outcomes and staff satisfaction, alongside a commitment to a moratorium on any future centralisation if that exercise shows the dissatisfaction that I believe that it will show. And I'd like a further statement on the future of the accident and emergency department at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital that includes some solid guarantees about its future.