Whilst Rhun ap Iorwerth and Altaf Hussain have produced some interesting differentials between different health boards in the way we successfully treat liver disease, I want to focus on the beginning of this story, which is the prevention and early intervention aspects of it.

We only have one liver and the body can't survive without it. I had the misfortune to have hepatitis A in my 20s, so I am fully aware of how unpleasant having liver disease is, but I certainly wouldn’t put it into the same category as having viral hepatitis. If we don’t look after our livers we will die, because we can’t survive without our liver. Transplant operations for livers are rare and, in any case, not available in Wales. So, let’s protect our livers and then we won’t have these problems.