Labour’s Health Minister this afternoon revealed that he has not yet read a 16 page report, published yesterday by the BMA warning of ‘imminent meltdown’ in the Welsh NHS. The Minister made the revelation under questioning by Paul Davies AM, Deputy Leader of the Welsh Conservative Group, in a scrutiny session of the Assembly’s Health Committee.

Paul Davies said, “It is extraordinary that Labour’s Health Minister has not taken even a few minutes in the past 24 hours to thumb through a 16 page report from doctors warning of ‘imminent meltdown’ in the Welsh NHS.
“There should be an urgency in the Welsh Government to hear any concerns from frontline clinicians instead of this lazy attitude towards the genuine warnings of NHS doctors.
“A cynic might think the Labour Health Minister deliberately ignored the warning by over 7,000 GPs to evade scrutiny for his party’s NHS mismanagement ahead of a key scrutiny committee.”