Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:13 pm on 26 November 2019.
I was hoping that one of your priorities might be to deal with the ongoing problems that we've seen since that health board has been put into special measures because, of course, the people of north Wales feel let down by your Government when it comes to our national health service in the region. We have a health board that has been in special measures for four and a half years. Its financial position has deteriorated while it's been in special measures, many of its performance indicators have also deteriorated; people are waiting up to two years for their orthopaedic treatment; we've seen a domino of GP surgeries that have closed since you took charge of special measures in that particular health board; and, of course, we've seen the unpalatable situation of the incompetence of the current leadership having to draft in somebody based overseas who is being paid £2,000 per day—not per week, per day—in order to sort out the problems in that health board because of the lack of quality leadership.
When will people in north Wales see the turnaround that you promised them four and a half years ago and see that health board firing on all pistons so that people can get their treatment in time and get the outcomes that they deserve?