Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:18 pm on 17 November 2020.
Llywydd, I thank Laura Anne Jones for what she said originally. Of course, the hospital has already opened its doors. It's been receiving patients for some days now. I saw an exchange of correspondence between the medical director and one doctor employed by the health board that I think set out very clearly the way in which staffing arrangements have been agreed, agreed with clinicians, agreed with the nursing leadership in the health board. Those staffing arrangements have been put in place. It's not to say for a moment, Llywydd, that the system is not under pressure. The health service is under pressure absolutely everywhere right across the United Kingdom, and most of Europe as well, and that is certainly true here in Wales. But working within those pressures, plans have been drawn up, they've been agreed with the people who need to operate them, and they are being put in place as this hospital receives its first patients.