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Cash ‘ploughed into NHS’ to prevent change
Concerns have grown that money is being ‘ploughed’ into keeping the NHS running instead of delivering vital long-term changes.
AMs on the cross-party health committee said social care would reach ‘crisis point’ unless there are big increases in funding or new ways of spending.
The committee’s report on the Welsh government’s draft budget will be debated in the Senedd on Tuesday. The budget is likely to pass thanks to a deal between Labour and Plaid Cymru.
The health committee said ‘significant service transformation’ was central to making the NHS ‘financially viable’.
It added: “If this does not happen we remain in a position where additional sums of Welsh government funding are being ploughed into maintaining current delivery models."
The reported warned that ‘urgent attention is needed to ensure that the Welsh government's allocations for NHS Wales expenditure is used in a way which will deliver transformative change’.
The report came as the Welsh government outlined a £13 million plan to cut hospital waiting lists in north Wales by half.
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