Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:24 pm on 16 November 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:24, 16 November 2021

I'll take it seriously, because I have also seen the reply that the board made to those letters in July of this year—the board paper, the very detailed board paper, and the very serious board paper that went through the points that those clinicians raised, because they are genuinely very important points, and the board is taking them with the seriousness that they deserve. They have 800 more nurses in place in Betsi Cadwaladr than they did at the start of the last Senedd term, so that's 800 more people able to help the board in providing the services that people in the Member's constituency and across north Wales rely on and deserve.

The health service, in every part of Wales and in every part of the United Kingdom, is under the most enormous pressure, and she can be assured and the people—[Interruption.] It may not be good enough for the Member, but she has no magic wand and she has no easy answers to these problems and neither does anybody else. She can be assured and, more importantly, residents of north Wales can be assured that the whole effort of the board and its senior management is directed to doing everything they can to deal with the daily pressures that the health service is experiencing, and to make sure that the thousands of people who, just today, in this single day, the thousands of people in north Wales who will have used the health service and used it successfully, go on receiving that service.