Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:54 pm on 12 October 2022.
Thank you. Rhun, you asked about hospital beds. Well, we've got considerably more hospital beds in Wales, according to the Nuffield Trust, than they do in England. There are 270 beds per 100,000 in Wales; 170 beds per 100,000 in England. But what we're keen to do is to make sure that we get into that reablement space that you talked about. It's not just about hospital beds, it's about actually how do we get them out of hospital beds into the community.
Now, we have a report from the expert group on care, and that's going to be published soon. I think it's probably worth saying that whatever the ambitions were, we could be restricted in terms of our financial restrictions in future. So, we've just got to understand that, whatever the situation was before the summer, it has changed significantly. Julie Morgan, my colleague, has been working very hard on this as well. I think that that is enough from me, Chair.