11. Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS winter pressures

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:28 pm on 6 October 2021.

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Photo of Rhun ap Iorwerth Rhun ap Iorwerth Plaid Cymru 5:28, 6 October 2021

(Translated)

Thank you very much, and thank you for Members' contributions and the Minister's reply to the debate. We've heard references to very familiar problems that will be familiar to each and every one of us here in the Senedd, and we've heard a number of ideas from across all parties, to be fair, in terms of the responses that could be put in place. In terms of the Minister, I don't think that we would expect more just a fortnight before the plan itself is published than an outline of some of the principles that will be adhered to, and we look forward to seeing the publication of that report, even if I do have to add the words 'at last' at the end of that particular sentence. 

We can't come out of this winter in a worse position than we enter into it, and that is because of the terrible state of some services because of the pressures that there have been on them. And, in addition to that, the service will have to deal with the additional winter pressures—and it's another COVID winter, of course—and emerge from it with clear signs that the general situation of health and care services and the prognosis for those services is improved, and that is certainly the challenge that we face.