Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 16 July 2019.
First Minister, scandals in the care of elderly patients at the Tawel Fan ward in north Wales and in the care of mothers and babies in the Cwm Taf University Health Board area in south Wales have exposed, I believe, some very serious weaknesses in the accountability arrangements in the Welsh NHS. The fact that not a single person has been sacked for the serious failings in care that have been exposed in the hospitals concerned I believe is totally unacceptable. It's an injustice, and it adds further insult to injury for the families and loved ones of those affected. When will your Government address this accountability deficit in our Welsh NHS, and will you, as a former health Minister—and, indeed, your current health Minister—accept that you have a responsibility to act in order to ensure that we get to grips with the lack of accountability in the Welsh NHS and that people pay a price when they're responsible for things that go wrong?