Priorities for the NHS in South Wales Central

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:59 pm on 26 November 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:59, 26 November 2019

Llywydd, well, it's good to hear, at last, Gareth Bennett acknowledge the disastrous impact of leaving the European Union on recruitment in the health service here in Wales. I thought his question got off to a very promising start in that way—it went downhill fairly fast after that.

I can tell him, Llywydd, that hard-working people in the Welsh NHS, who work every day to make sure that people in Wales have the services they need—they look forward to the day when there is a Labour Government prepared to invest in those public services so that the ambition of a four-day week can be realised here in Wales. Why could it possibly be thought of as an unworthy ambition to allow people to spend more time with their families, more time investing in their own development, when we are able to do that? We have a plan to do that. It will apply here in Wales. I look forward to the opportunity to be able to do it.