The Ministerial Advisory Group (MAG) of independent experts, set up by Labour’s Health Cabinet Secretary, has produced a report offering a 29 recommendations to address the “high risk” of increasing patient harm and poor value for taxpayers’ money if there is not an “urgent improvement and turnaround” in the Welsh NHS.
Commenting on the latest statistics, James Evans MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care said:
“This report echoes the Welsh Conservatives’ conclusion that under Labour, the Welsh NHS is broken.
“The experts have given a clear verdict: Labour’s failure to share best ways of working and to reduce variation between health boards is increasing the risk of harm being done to patients, and poor value being delivered for taxpayers.
“We also need a fresh look at the structure of the NHS in Wales, one that breaks down the entrenched bureaucracy and ends the siloed way of working between health boards and services.
“Welsh Conservatives have a plan to fix the Welsh NHS, by removing restrictions on cross-community, cross-border and cross-sector capacity sharing in the short term, investing in social care, and enacting a substantial workforce plan to boost staffing numbers in the longer term.”
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