6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health services

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:35 pm on 8 December 2021.

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Photo of Llyr Gruffydd Llyr Gruffydd Plaid Cymru 4:35, 8 December 2021

(Translated)

Thank you for the opportunity to once again discuss this issue. We've had a number of opportunities over recent weeks and months, and indeed recent years, to discuss the scandal of the Hergest unit and the scandal of not publishing the Holden report in full. And every time I get up to speak about this issue, I still can't believe that the board tried to evade accountability in the way that they did—they tried to avoid transparency on this issue—and, of course, how we have still not seen people held to account for the serious failings in relation to this case.

If you're a nurse or a doctor and you fail in your duties, then you're struck off the register; you are excluded from operating within your profession. If you're a manager in the health service who fails, then you get to carry on and, very often, you just move on to a different role, a similar role, somewhere else. That has to change, and there is a responsibility on the Government to ensure that that can't continue to happen in the future.