Plaid Cymru leader refuses to put cost on health policy
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Leanne Wood, leader of the Welsh independence party Plaid Cymru, has refused to put a figure the cost of the party’s health and social care plan.
Speaking during the Plaid Cymru conference in Aberstwyth, Ms Wood said that a victory would mean that the cost of the plan, which would involve the integration of the Welsh NHS into local social care and the abolition of health boards, would be absorbed by an overall reorganisation of local government. She also promised to recruit 1,000 new doctors “to make services safe” in the event of a Plaid victory, in response to 16 years of Labour rule which she says has resulted in fewer doctors per head than anywhere else in Britain.
Ms Wood also said that a full budget, including the NHS plan, would be produced before the election in May next year. Among the party’s other election pledges are scrapping care fees for the elderly and people suffering from dementia, at an estimated cost of £226m.