Group 2: Duty to secure quality in health services — meaning of ‘quality’ (Amendments 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71)

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:34 pm on 10 March 2020.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 5:34, 10 March 2020

The Welsh Conservatives support all of these amendments, and Rhun ap Iorwerth very neatly took my words, which were: if we don't have a definition of what quality is on the Bill in all the areas, then what is the point of the legislation? If they're already doing it, if the health boards are already doing it, then we don't need the legislation.

With the previous set of amendments that I tabled a little bit earlier, that's the whole point: health boards should be doing it. If they're not doing it—. We should be achieving this level of quality in our NHS; we're not achieving this level of quality in our NHS in all of these areas that you raise—three very important areas: the Welsh language, prevention of inequalities, and the prevention work—and it is absolutely key that we do just that. So, we support your amendments and thank you for tabling them.