Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:02 pm on 21 March 2023.
I think the Member will find that the report was actually published on 7 March, rather than last week. The health board, under the rules that are agreed with HIW, have four weeks in which to provide assurance to HIW that the concerning issues, and I agree with the Member that the issues that were identified are of concern—. There will be four weeks for the health board to provide assurances to HIW that a plan is in place to deal with them. The Minister has already directed the NHS delivery unit to meet monthly with the board, once that assurance plan is published, to make sure that it is supervised in the implementation of it. The reply of the health board will first of all need to be scrutinised to make sure that it does measure up to the issues that were set out in the HIW report. Once we are satisfied that that action plan is adequate to the task, then a monthly review of it by the delivery unit will provide the Minister with the assurances that she will need that it is being properly put into place.