Healthcare in South Wales West

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 5 November 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:12, 5 November 2019

Well, Llywydd, I'm not sure what the Member is suggesting—whether she's suggesting that the answer is to make it easier for cars to be able to park at hospitals. Our efforts and health boards' efforts are focused on sustainable travel plans, making sure that public transport is aligned with hospitals so that people can travel easily in that way to hospitals, and in staggering some of the times that appointments are made and visiting hours are held, so that you don't have large numbers of people converging on a site at a particular moment. We have to have sustainable travel plans, and simply relying on more and more cars being able to make their way to hospitals will not provide that, and certainly will not provide any answer to a climate emergency.