Wales Cardiac Clinical Lead

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care – in the Senedd at 3:08 pm on 25 March 2026.

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Photo of Jeremy Miles Jeremy Miles Labour 3:08, 25 March 2026

I hope the Member will be happy to hear the date I gave in relation to the appointment of the cardiology clinical lead. The broader point is this, though: NHS performance and improvement is a redesigned organisation. It has evolved from the NHS Wales Executive and the entire purpose of that redesign was to point the resources and the expertise available in NHSPI to the Government's priorities for the NHS. And necessarily, in making that change, as you would probably expect, there is a process, then, of realigning that capability and resource within NHSPI, so that it can focus in in a laser-like way on all of those priorities. So, we are in the process of that happening at the moment. It's obviously being done within NHSPI. So, making sure those clinical leadership roles are focused on where we need the improvement to be is critical to that. That's the process that's under way. I'm confident it's the right thing to do. I also know that there will be organisations that are concerned that that reorganisation is under way. What I would say is that it's being done in a strategic way and I'm confident that it will lead to us being able to support the system better than we've been able to do in the past.

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