Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:41 pm on 3 July 2019.
Thank you very much and thank you for calling me. The Public Accounts Committee has been taking quite a lot of evidence around this, and the quality of the evidence given by the RNIB was absolutely excellent. I'd like to pay tribute to the work they do—particularly Gareth Davies, who is the RNIB stakeholder engagement lead—in advising people on the significance of the correspondence they get from their health board, because it's really important that patients know whether the cancellation of an appointment is something that should be contested, because of the urgency of their issue, or whether it's something that's entirely routine. The concern that the RNIB was raising was that people are having their appointments cancelled almost before they get the letter of the appointment. Clearly, there has been a major problem at Cardiff and Vale, which has certainly caused me to have a lot of individual correspondence—