Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:44 pm on 29 September 2021.
I am pleased that you said that it came as a shock to you to see us so far behind. I see your predecessor sitting very quietly next to you there, and the health Minister before him was the current First Minster, of course. But, throughout this pandemic, we have seen how services can move quickly and introduce change quickly, when the leadership and the political will are there. We can create services that are appropriate to our needs. And working on paper is holding the health service back. Staff have had enough, and patients, at the end of the day, are suffering as a result of this. So, can we once again have an unambiguous commitment from the Minister to put the same political will into introducing this, and to introduce it now, not within a five-year timescale? Because five years is a very long time for anyone; in the digital age, it's a lifetime.