Clause 22 - Health and well-being strategies in Wales
NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill
Public Bill Committees, 29 November 2001, 3:00 pm
Mr Don Touhig (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Welsh Office; Islwyn, Labour/Co-operative)
It is important to recognise that the Assembly will set its overall priorities among its targets for improving health service delivery in Wales. It will establish measures for the achievement of targets and to assess the results. The Assembly will make regulations that will determine the targets and how they will be measured. As I said earlier, provision is made for local health boards to produce reports and to be open and accountable for all that they do. That will be measured not only against the Assembly's aims for the health service in Wales but against the hopes and aspirations of the local community, as represented on the local health boards.