Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:02 pm on 21 January 2025.
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Cabinet Secretary, the newly opened 19 Hills health centre in Ringland in Newport East will provide a range of primary and community services delivered by general practitioners and a range of healthcare professionals, physical and mental health services. It serves a number of relatively disadvantaged communities where the inverse care law strongly applies, with those most in need of healthcare least likely to receive it. I wonder how the Welsh Government will work with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and the 19 Hills health centre to make sure that we see a real improvement in access to healthcare by those in the community badly needing those services but currently not receiving them, to make sure that the potential of pulling these services from the acute sector into primary care and into a community setting is fully realised.