This is not the statement that I had expected today; it's not the statement that I think the people of Wales needed to hear. This isn't a plan; this is a status report. It's a report on what Government has been doing to try to get the NHS ready for winter, to try to deal with current pressures, but frankly we know that what this Labour Government has done hasn't worked. What we want to know is what they're going to do differently. The results of the crisis are plain to see for patients; they're plain to see for staff. But where's the change of direction? In fact, where's the kind of action that shows that the Government is in genuine crisis mode here? Because this was only going to be a half-hour discussion—a half hour on what's clear from my postbag, and, I'm sure, everybody else's here, is no doubt the biggest health crisis, other than COVID itself, of course, that we have witnessed.

What I'm seeing is a Labour Minister finding blame for the crisis rather than suggesting new solutions to it. She has the audacity, frankly, to appear to blame the nurses, saying that their industrial action has placed additional pressure on systems, when it's pressure on them, on the nurses and others, together with a decade-long pay squeeze, that led them to vote to strike. And whilst I absolutely agree with the Minister on the injustice of the Conservative years of austerity, she has to recognise that this is Welsh Government's fault. Does the Minister recognise that the failure to support staff in particular is Welsh Labour Government's fault?

She points to the delayed transfer of care figures as a cause of lost capacity in the system, but it's her job to create that capacity. What we need is a more ambitious plan, frankly, to speed up patient flow through the health and care system. She mentioned today the creation of 500 extra community beds. That's positive, but we've lost thousands of beds. I wrote to her some weeks ago, asking for work to be done on the possibility of setting up COVID-style temporary community step-down facilities. The First Minister—rather patronisingly, I thought—said yesterday that those suggesting that are well-meaning, but that the problem is a lack of staff, not beds. Well, (a), it's both, and, (b), Welsh Government is responsible for both: both bed numbers and staffing capacity. And, frankly, woeful workforce planning, plus of course the current lack of meaningful engagement on resolving industrial disputes, is making staff shortages worse. Does the Minister recognise that the failure to resolve delayed transfers of care is the Labour Government's fault?