Minister, since primary care practitioners often care for people over extended periods of time, sometimes many years, the relationship between patient and doctor is particularly important. Now, when it comes to mental health issues, trusting relationships have been found wanting, because, simply, they can't get through to their GP. And in my own local health board, I'm seeing now many patients passed between department, between pillar and post, due to such a high turnover of staff in mental health services. 

Now, by having dedicated mental health support workers within their surgeries, or mental health nurses, GPs have found previously these have been really, really useful, and have actually been able to provide support there and then. Local GPs have asked me to raise this again as to when introductions of these nurses could be put back into GP surgeries. Will you confirm what steps you have taken to evaluate the training and recruitment costs required to place a mental health professional in every GP surgery across our constituencies, and will you listen to our GPs on the front line, who are simply asking for this? Diolch.