Plaid Cymru set to unveil plan to tackle health crisis in Wales

Plaid Cymru will launch a 5 -point plan later this morning, to help tackle the crisis in the NHS in Wales.

The plan is said to offer both immediate and longer-term solutions for the problems facing the health service. The party says that implementation of the plan will benefit staff, patients and those that administer the service.

Adam Price MS, Leader of the Plaid Cymru has said that the plan offers "practical solutions" to "very real problems"

Plaid Cymru's health and care spokesperson Rhun ap lorwerth MS said that the plan has been developed in conversation with the health sector and represents the "five things we believe can make a real difference"

The plan will be debated in the Senedd tomorrow (Wednesday 25th January) as part of a call on the Welsh Government to bring forward a strategy to reduce the pressures facing the NHS.

We can expect plans to include topics high on the agenda for most right now, including pay and workforce retention.

Leader of the Plaid Cymru Adam Price MS said: " here is a health crisis in Wales for which new thinking is required – a health crisis which Welsh Government cannot admit exists in the first place.

"But when ambulance response times and emergency department waiting times are at an all-time high, and workers are taking to the picket line over unfair pay and unsafe working conditions, then the question has to be asked: If this isn’t a crisis, then how much worse are they expecting it to get?"

“I’ve said before that no one party has a monopoly on good ideas, but when the Tories offer privatisation, and Labour offer nothing, then Plaid Cymru is the one group in the Senedd offering practical solutions to the very real problems we’re facing in Wales."

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