Several AMs noted that integration and consistency is needed in terms of treatment services, while Conservative AM Antoinette Sanbach argued it was a "disgrace" that a specialist facility for blind veterans had opened in Llandudno without any financial support from the government.

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Consider the scant and mostly euphemistic treatment of the issue in the new Conservative Action Project manifesto dubbed the Mount Vernon Statement, released with much fanfare on February 17.

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Labour's plan for the future of the NHS is in stark contrast to the Conservative record when some people were waiting 18 months for treatment.

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Meanwhile, Conservative peer Baroness Knight called for an inquiry into claims some people might have survived had they not received this treatment.

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