Part of 3. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 3:35 pm on 18 May 2022.
Thank you. I wasn't going to speak on this, but I will now, so hopefully what I say is okay. I often get asked do I think that the health board is too big. And my commonsense thought about it, gut reaction, would be, 'Yes, it is.' It's a huge region—[Interruption.] Common sense. But I like to ask people, so I asked health professionals, I asked people in social services, what did they really think, you know, do we need to do something now. And they said it would be a costly distraction to do something now, reorganisation is really expensive, and there are immediate things that need to be attended to right now. There are many services that are excellent in Betsi Cadwaladr health board, and I'm so glad that my daughter, who lives just across the border, was able to have her child in Wrexham, because, just across the border in Shropshire, it's really, really bad, the maternity health services there. So, there are really good departments, and I don't want to knock them, but there are some that need investment.