Mental Health Care

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:44 pm on 14 December 2021.

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Photo of Mabon ap Gwynfor Mabon ap Gwynfor Plaid Cymru 2:44, 14 December 2021

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I thank the First Minister for that answer. A constituent, David Graves, has been waiting for an independent external review into the treatment and care of his mother on the Hergest ward for over three years now. Donna Ockenden, the author of the Ockenden report, was asked to hold the review by the health board in July 2018, but the health board didn't follow up on that request. Donna Ockenden has offered to hold the review once again. I know that because she told me personally some weeks ago. In 2018, the current health Minister wrote to the then health Minister insisting that the board contact Donna Ockenden to hold this independent external review. Now that the Holden report has been published, shouldn't I enable my constituent to close this sad chapter of his life by enabling Donna Ockenden to carry out this independent external review? Will you, First Minister, join with me in calling on the health board to contact Donna Ockenden in order to commission her to do this important work?