Speaking ahead of the publication of the Welsh Government's Draft Budget, Paul Davies AM, Shadow Minister for Finance, said:

"Under Labour, the Welsh NHS is facing the deepest cuts of any UK health service, with cuts, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, of 8.6% since 2010.

"Labour in Wales has cut the Welsh NHS by over £800million in real terms over five years and frontline services and waiting lists are getting worse as a result.

"In the Welsh NHS, patients are routinely waiting over four hours to be seen in A&E, less than 62% of ambulances respond to a life-threatening call within 8 minutes and cancer patients are denied access to life-extending treatments readily available in other parts of the UK.

"For the sake of our NHS, Carwyn Jones must use this Draft Budget to reverse Labour's damaging health cuts."