I am increasingly concerned about the lack of data kept by the NHS to assist the scrutiny of health services in Wales.
In answers to written questions I have been told that the data are not available to show how much is being spent on dementia-related illnesses in Wales and we cannot find out the amount spent per patient on cancer care, stroke care, heart disease and multiple sclerosis.
The Nuffield Trust has stated that there is a concern across all of the devolved administrations about the quality and quantity of available data.
It certainly makes a difference when we are trying to scrutinise the health service and its performance in the way that everyone wants to see to ensure that we get the best from our excellent staff and the health service.
The Assembly Government needs to address this issue because it makes a difference to the performance of the health service and to the scrutiny that we as Assembly Members can give it.
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