Thank you for your statement, Minister. I too would like to thank all the staff in the NHS who work under difficult conditions to carry out their duties. In order to ensure our NHS survives the long-term challenges it is facing, we need to implement long-term planning in health and social care, and planning that has to date, I'm sorry to say, been piecemeal. Proper planning doesn't just mean setting financial plans for a couple of years, we need full-on horizon scanning of future advances and challenges. We need a whole-system approach to workforce planning that anticipates future demographic changes, advances in medicines and health technology, and provides a workforce with the right skills to address all these challenges. 

I welcome the opportunity for people to study for the diploma, because encouraging participants makes them feel valued, and this investing in their future will give them pride to carry on and hopefully have a long-standing career with the NHS.

We also have to ensure that solutions to address these challenges do not take years to implement. For example, the revolutionary 111 service was carried out in my region, it was piloted some three years ago now, but it won't be rolled out all over Wales for another two years. I think this is quite frustrating because it is a successful arrangement here. So, when we plan improvements to health and social care services, it shouldn't take six years to implement them, when they've already achieved best practice status.

So a lot of work needs to be done also on ambulance response times, because I am having a lot of people contact me regarding these response times and also the amount of time it takes for a patient, once they are admitted to the hospital, to eventually have a bed on a ward. It's 10 to 14 hours of being stood in a side ward. So, Minister, how will your planning academy ensure that future challenges are anticipated, and how will you ensure that all these challenges are going to be met to the very best of their ability?

Also, what role will Health Education and Improvement Wales play in ensuring that we have sufficient numbers of young people studying for a future career in health and social care? What can be done further to help health boards also who are underperforming at the moment and have financial challenges? How can we get the health boards with the best practice to take on board those that are not achieving their ambitions at the moment? How well is best practice being shared?

And finally, Minister, with all the various strands involved in providing the health and social care workforce, how will you ensure that we have a flexible, adaptable training system that plans for the future whilst meeting, obviously, the significant challenges of the moment? Thank you.