Adferiad Recovery gave written and oral evidence to the Senedd Health & Social Care Committee’s recent inquiry into waiting times: we stressed that the priority for mental health services must be to ‘catch up’ in terms of treatment and care for those most in need – people with serious and enduring mental illness.
The Committee has now published its report ‘Waiting well? The impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales’ which makes a wide range of recommendations. Adferiad Recovery welcomes the recognition in the report (Recommendation 15) of the needs of unpaid carers and urges the Welsh Government to recognise both the value of unpaid carers and the pressures that they face.
Read the full report here.