10. Plaid Cymru Debate: Access to Health Services

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:08 pm on 6 November 2019.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 5:08, 6 November 2019

Thank you. There are similar shortages, obviously, with endoscopy nurses.

I did want to just touch on Caroline Jones's amendment, because we will be abstaining on it. Not because we don't support it, because we absolutely do, but the fundamental issue that we have with access to primary care services is that everything that this Government has done—the parliamentary review, the vision for health—is predicated on us taking our potential patients and seeing them at home, in the community, before they go anywhere else and do anything else. And primary care, I suspect from the numbers that I'm running, needs substantially more than 10 per cent in order to be able to meet the ambitions that we've all cleaved to as parties across this place on the parliamentary review to try to move that emphasis away from hospitals and into—[Inaudible.] So, it's a good amendment, but we can't support it because you put a number to it.