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| Plaid's Leanne Wood fails to reveal health policy cost | Plaid's Leanne Wood fails to reveal health policy cost |
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| 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. | 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. |
| She told BBC Radio Wales they would be "absorbed with the overall reorganisation of local government". | She told BBC Radio Wales they would be "absorbed with the overall reorganisation of local government". |
| Ms Wood told Good Morning Wales Plaid wanted to "turn around" the Welsh NHS compared to "more stagnation and decline" under Labour. | Ms Wood told Good Morning Wales Plaid wanted to "turn around" the Welsh NHS compared to "more stagnation and decline" under Labour. |
| She was speaking as the Plaid Cymru conference opened in Aberystwyth. | She was speaking as the Plaid Cymru conference opened in Aberystwyth. |
| The party has promised to produce a full budget before the assembly election in May 2016. | The party has promised to produce a full budget before the assembly election in May 2016. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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 people with dementia, at a cost of £226m. | 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 NHS by abolishing health boards and integrating the service with social care offered by local councils. | However, she told BBC Radio Wales she was unable to put a figure on the overall cost of reorganising the NHS by abolishing health boards and integrating the service with social care offered by local councils. |
| "We want to see health services run in a very different way," she said. | "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. | "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." | "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. | 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." | "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. |
| She said she could not rule out forming another coalition with Labour, but said it was "very difficult to see" how Plaid could share power with the Conservatives. | She said she could not rule out forming another coalition with Labour, but said it was "very difficult to see" how Plaid could share power with the Conservatives. |
| Ms Wood accused the Tories of being "intent on pursuing ideological cuts from Westminster" and "so far apart from us ideologically". | Ms Wood accused the Tories of being "intent on pursuing ideological cuts from Westminster" and "so far apart from us ideologically". |
| "The vast majority of people in Wales are not prepared to contemplate the Conservatives being in government in Wales," she added. | "The vast majority of people in Wales are not prepared to contemplate the Conservatives being in government in Wales," she added. |
| Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon addressed the conference on Friday, saying Ms Wood was "ready and able" to lead Wales as its first minister. | |