00:00 and that the ambulance service is having more resource to meet the demand.
00:07 All very welcome, but as Health Inspectorate Wales highlighted in their annual report,
00:12 they cannot find any evidence of improvements in the service.
00:16 That's their words, not mine.
00:18 The NHS in Wales cares for hundreds of thousands of patients every year.
00:23 And within them, many have decent experiences,
00:25 but many have very poor experiences in hospitals and the care sector.
00:29 For example, Theresa Jones, a 91-year-old woman who, according to her family,
00:33 waited 24 hours for an ambulance after falling in her care home in Port Talbot.
00:37 And BBC journalist Jeremy Bowen's 86-year-old mother,
00:40 who spent a full day sat on a plastic chair waiting in the Heath hospital with a severe chest infection.
00:45 These may be outliers, but these are real experiences,
00:48 and Andrew R.T. Davies thinks the people of Wales deserve better.
00:51 I've listed two experiences of two elderly individuals here.
00:57 I'm not asking you to comment about the individual experience.
01:01 I'm asking you to reflect on the delivery of the service
01:06 and how the government, of which you are head of,
01:10 is making sure that these improvements are being fed through.
01:14 If he wants a proper answer to his question,
01:16 then I think he would recognise that the fundamental issue
01:20 with both the ambulance service and A&E departments
01:23 doesn't lie either in that service or in that department.
01:26 It lies in the fact that so many people are in our hospitals in Wales
01:31 who do not need to be in a hospital,
01:34 but could be cared for successfully elsewhere,
01:37 but where those services struggle to meet the demand for move-on.
01:42 So we have many, many hundreds of people
01:46 clinically fit to be looked after elsewhere
01:49 who are in a hospital bed.
01:51 What's happened in Port Talbot and the steelworks could be devastating for the whole town.
01:55 Discussions are still ongoing about other alternatives to the current plan
01:59 to cut the 2,800 jobs.
02:01 The Welsh Government have spoken about their options
02:03 and they believe more jobs can be saved,
02:05 keeping much of the steelworks site open
02:07 and moving to a greener way of producing steel.
02:10 But does the First Minister agree with me
02:12 that supporting a just transition is a principle
02:15 that should be equally important to the agriculture sector too?
02:20 That there is a credible alternative plan
02:22 to the one that the company itself has so far put on the table.
02:27 We expect over the weeks ahead
02:29 that that credible plan will receive the attention that it needs and deserves
02:35 and that an alternative future,
02:37 an alternative path to that future that Port Talbot has of green steelmaking
02:43 should be agreed between the trade unions, the community and the company itself
02:50 and the Welsh Government will certainly play our part in that.
02:54 The First Minister will only be hearing about issues like these for a few more weeks
02:58 and will these problems look to well outlast Mark Drakeford and his tenure.
03:01 David Watkins reporting from Wales.
03:04 (water splashing)
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