Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:34 pm on 3 July 2019.
I don't think my concern is about the overall approach, but my concern is about the knock-on effects for particular conditions. A freedom of information request from my office showed 4,038 patients waiting longer than an hour for an ambulance to arrive when they had a stroke, between January 2018 and March this year. Strokes are a life-threatening emergency; when they're not life-threatening, they can absolutely devastate people's lives. Is it acceptable that we have over 4,000 people waiting for longer than an hour for this very distressing, and, in many cases, life-threatening medical emergency?