‘New isn’t always the answer’ and a ‘less is more’ approach seem to be the core messages from last month’s external ministerial advisory group on NHS Wales performance and productivity.

Jeremy Miles, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, has resisted the temptation to launch lots of new initiatives, as is the wont of many a politician when faced with an unhappy inbox in a (relatively) new role.

Instead, he has taken the wise step of asking what’s working and what’s not, where and why? His other wise step was asking a group of experts, with no vested interest, to advise him on practical fixes that can be delivered quickly. There is a Senedd election looming, after all.

A sign of our times is that we are excited not simply by the new, but by the latest version or model. The........

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