Clause 3 - Functions of the Centre
Health (Wales) Bill
6:00 pm
Mr Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell, Conservative)
There will always be multiple opinions in the medical and scientific communities. New research comes out one week and we are told that we can eat something. The following week there is another piece of research and we are told not to eat it, only to be advised the week after that that the food is very healthy. One loses touch with what is good for you and what is bad.
Should a young person watching a public information campaign about HIV/AIDS, produced by the Wales Centre for Health and shown on HTV, receive a dramatically different message from that shown a moment or two later on Channel 4 from the public health bodies in London? Would that be prudent? That is why I believe in a partnership campaign and the co-ordination of messages.