Responding to the latest Labour Welsh Government initiative to try to reduce the hospital discharge backlog, Welsh Conservative Shadow Health Minister, Sam Rowlands MS said:
“My concern with Labour’s latest initiative is that it’s all aspiration and arbitrary targets with no additional financial backing or plan to increase social care capacity.
“The Welsh Conservatives would pass on every penny received for health on the Welsh NHS to integrate it more appropriately with social care, properly financing councils with a new funding formula to deliver the service and to enact a substantial workforce plan to hire more doctors and nurses as opposed to Labour’s plan to create more jobs for politicians.”
Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Social Care, Dr Altaf Hussain MS added:
“Both the Darzi and annual Healthcare Inspectorate’s reports were clear that discharge delays into the community and social care were a massive factor in Wales’ excessive waiting lists which have increased for seven consecutive record-breaking months.
“We need to value our care workers more if we are to free up and expand capacity in the social care sector to tackle the long Labour-run Welsh NHS waits we continue to see.”
