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Back Plaid to end NHS failure, Wood tells Labour voters Plaid's Leanne Wood fails to reveal health policy cost
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Labour voters who value the NHS should back Plaid Cymru in the assembly election, the party's leader has said. Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has said she is unable to put a figure on the cost of her party's plans to integrate health and social care.
Speaking before addressing the party's conference in Aberystwyth, Leanne Wood attacked Labour ministers' "record of failure" on health in Wales. She told BBC Radio Wales they would be "absorbed with the overall reorganisation of local government".
She said money coming to Wales due to extra spending on England's health service would go to the Welsh NHS if Plaid Cymru wins power in May 2016. Ms Wood told Good Morning Wales Plaid wanted to "turn around" the Welsh NHS compared to "more stagnation and decline" under Labour.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will also speak on Friday. She was speaking as the Plaid Cymru conference opened in Aberystwyth.
Ms Wood said that, after 16 years of Labour rule, Wales had fewer doctors per head than elsewhere in Britain, growing waiting times for operations and people struggling with care costs. Ms Wood said money coming to Wales due to extra spending on England's health service would be ring-fenced to go to the Welsh NHS if Plaid Cymru wins power in May 2016.
She said that, after 16 years of Labour rule, Wales had fewer doctors per head than elsewhere in Britain, growing waiting times for operations, and people struggling with care costs.
Plaid Cymru, she promised, would recruit an extra 1,000 doctors "so that services are safe".Plaid Cymru, she promised, would recruit an extra 1,000 doctors "so that services are safe".
The party's election pledges also include scrapping care fees for the elderly and abolishing Wales' health boards, putting major hospitals under one body. The party's election pledges also include scrapping care fees for the elderly and people with dementia, at a cost of £226m.
However, she told BBC Radio Wales she was unable to put a figure on the overall cost of reorganising the health service by abolishing the health boards and integrating health with social care offered by local councils.
"We want to see health services run in a very different way," she said.
"I can't give you a figure for that ... there will be a cost but it has to be absorbed with the overall reorganisation of local government.
"It's not something you can look at specifically on its own."
'Strong team''Strong team'
On the party's prospects of coming to power, Ms Wood told BBC Wales: "I want to see a Plaid Cymru government.
"Now I accept that forming a majority is difficult, because of the system that we have, but a Plaid Cymru minority administration would have to work with other parties in order to gets its budget and its programme through."
Plaid entered government for the first time in coalition with Labour in Cardiff Bay between 2007 and 2011, under Ms Wood's predecessor Ieuan Wyn Jones.Plaid entered government for the first time in coalition with Labour in Cardiff Bay between 2007 and 2011, under Ms Wood's predecessor Ieuan Wyn Jones.
But Ms Wood told BBC Wales she did not want such an arrangement in 2016. She said she could not rule out forming another coalition with Labour, but said it was "very difficult to see" how Plaid could form an administration with the Conservatives.
"I want to see a Plaid Cymru government," she said. Ms Wood accused the Tories of being "intent on pursuing ideological cuts from Westminster" and "so far apart from us ideologically".
"Now I accept that forming a majority is difficult, because of the system that we have, but a Plaid Cymru minority administration would have to work with other parties in order to gets its budget and its programme through. "The vast majority of people in Wales are not prepared to contemplate the Conservatives being in government in Wales," she added.
"I've got a strong team of candidates, a good shadow cabinet and a very strong programme of government to put before people next May." Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is also speaking at the Plaid Cymru conference on Friday.
She will praise Leanne Wood as "principled, passionate" and ready to lead Wales.