Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:00 pm on 21 September 2021.
Diolch yn fawr, Janet, and I met with a constituent recently also who had a similar situation. Of course, there were examples where what happened before was that those people were sent into secondary care. What we've been trying to do is to move some of this support out into other areas. So, for example, I know there was a case in Crymych, for example, where they tried to develop an opportunity for people to get that support in a centre in a very rural area. So, there are opportunities to do this in a different way.
As I tried to explain earlier, what we're doing here in relation to eyes is we are prioritising on the basis of clinical need, and certainly I know that there has been an attempt to see if it is possible to give those injections in a way that doesn't need to be given quite as often as they were before. That has got to be a clinical call; it can't be a political call. And so I'm certainly happy to look into it to make sure that, if those decisions are being made, they are absolutely being made on a clinical basis, rather than any other reason.