Part of 3. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 3:26 pm on 18 May 2022.
Minister, we already knew, as local Members, that, Ysbyty Glan Clwyd is not a good-performing emergency department in Wales. I'm just sad, myself, to read the report and learn that it is now the worst-performing emergency department in Wales. In March 2022 only 44.1 per cent of patients were seen within the four-hour target; 62.4 per cent within the eight-hour target; and 1,351 people spent more than half a day, 12 hours, in A&E. Now, our casework does highlight the critical situation at Glan Clwyd, but the HIW report gives us just a glimpse of how bad things really are there. And I do acknowledge that you acknowledge it, and I thank my colleague Llyr Gruffydd, because if you hadn't had raised this as a topical question, I was hoping to raise it as some kind of urgent question.
The comments by Darren Millar I stand by 100 per cent. It is heartbreaking to be a Member when people contact us on a daily basis with things that are going wrong in this health board. And we're not out to put undue criticism on this health board. We've got fantastic staff there working their socks off, but they themselves are becoming very stressed. You're going to lose members of staff, not because of what we say here, but because of the conditions and pressures that they're working under. And, Minister, how do you think I feel when I read this? That the generic environment, clinical room, resuscitation equipment, oxygen suction equipment, manual handling equipment are dirty; that the utility and ward kitchen was found to be dusty or soiled; that patients who require a trolley in the major areas, if available—