00:00How do you help fix the NHS? It's a question that politicians and health experts have been
00:06asking themselves in Wales and the rest of the UK for decades. No one has that silver bullet,
00:11but in England they've published a new way of tracking just how well, or more often than not,
00:16how badly health trusts and boards are doing in a new league table. All of the trusts across
00:22England are ranked based on things like waiting times and cancer care. The figures are all totted
00:26up, put into some algorithm, and it splits out number one all the way down to 134 at the very
00:32bottom. It's been met with controversy with some experts saying it doesn't show how any one patient's
00:39treatment will go, and can be somewhat arbitrary depending on what field it's ranked by. Others
00:43though say it's incentivises trusts to do better. Wales's NHS has been struggling for some time,
00:49record waiting times are the biggest issue, so we're asking people in Cardiff if they think that
00:53a league table, similar to that in England, would work to rank Wales as seven health boards.
00:59I imagine it should probably be like more targeted. I imagine that depending on what area
01:04the hospital's in, it might face like different problems or whatnot. I don't know. I don't know,
01:12the idea of like ranking something never seems like a good idea to me. That whole judge of fish by its
01:19ability to climb a tree thing. It might do, but I don't know if it actually would, because they're
01:24all about the same. One thing I like is the fact that you can, like one of them will specialise in
01:31one particular thing, and then you think, well it's automatic, send them to that one and all that's it.
01:35But as far as ranking them, it may be a good idea to know which one's going good and which one
01:41needs. Yeah. Well, again, what's deemed low priority. You know, someone suffering from an
01:48illness in Aberdeer's got just as much as someone in Cardiff, that's right to healthcare. So not
01:56really sure, to be honest, what the correct way to go about it is, but I can see some positives,
02:02some negatives. So in theory, we could put together a hypothetical list of health boards across
02:09Wales at the moment, given all the stats and figures that Welsh Government actually publishes
02:13about the health boards. I have no idea about how health boards work, any of the intricacies
02:18of the waiting times and different care, but we can use artificial intelligence. So I asked
02:23ChatCPT to take into account all different things like waiting times, different care and patient
02:28feedback, to see where that hypothetical list could put different health boards. At the top,
02:32we've got Anire and Bevan, which is the area that's around Newport and Monmouth, the surrounding
02:37areas around there. They're top with things like the best across urgent care, diagnostics and cancer
02:42care. All the way at the bottom, would become much of no surprise for anyone, is Betsy Cadwalader,
02:47which regularly ranks at the bottom of basically every single stat in the Welsh Government's
02:52stat bank. And it always says, the ChatCPT says, consistently weak across all areas.
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