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No more excuses from Labour on NHS, says Plaid Cymru Plaid 'could take power with 20 seats', says senior party AM
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Plaid Cymru will intensify its attacks on Labour's handling of the Welsh NHS later, saying there should be "no more excuses" for long waiting lists and missed targets. Winning 20 assembly seats could allow Plaid Cymru to form the next Welsh government, a senior party AM has said.
Plaid health spokeswoman Elin Jones will set out a six-point plan to improve health services. Plaid is hoping to oust Labour from power in Cardiff Bay and form a minority administration after the assembly election in 2016.
Speaking at Plaid's Autumn conference, Rhun ap Iorwerth said a government could be formed with "about 20" seats.
Plaid Cymru currently has 11 of the 60 seats in the Senedd, Labour has 30, the Conservatives 14 and the Lib Dems 5.
Speaking to BBC Wales on the final day of the conference in Aberystwyth, Mr ap Iorwerth declined to set a target for the number of seats his party is hoping to win.
When asked how many seats a party would need to form a stable minority government, he replied: "You're probably talking no more than about 20, which is possible."
But he said "a lot of energy was wasted" discussing coalition scenarios during May's general election campaign.
"Let's have that conversation about coalitions after the May elections, when the people have decided on the makeup of the next assembly," Mr ap Iorwerth added.
Later at the conference, Plaid's health spokeswoman Elin Jones will set out a six-point plan to improve health services.
The proposals include a sugary drinks tax, specialist diagnostics centres and the recruitment of 1,000 extra doctors.The proposals include a sugary drinks tax, specialist diagnostics centres and the recruitment of 1,000 extra doctors.
She will address Plaid's conference, in Aberystwyth, on its final day.
Plaid Cymru's other main health priorities are:Plaid Cymru's other main health priorities are:
The party has placed health policy at the heart of its conference, making it central to a new appeal to Labour voters to "have another look" at Plaid.
But there was controversy on Friday, after leader Leanne Wood admitted in a BBC Good Morning Wales interview that she could not give a figure for the costs of the NHS changes.
The party is planning to publish a full alternative budget before the elections.
Ms Jones will accuse Labour ministers of being "unwilling to take the big decisions on the NHS, and unable to get the small decisions right".Ms Jones will accuse Labour ministers of being "unwilling to take the big decisions on the NHS, and unable to get the small decisions right".
"They have spent too much time over the past four and a half years blaming a Westminster government for a lack of funds, there should be no more excuses," she will say. Visiting a farm near Aberystwyth earlier, Ms Wood accused Labour of "dragging its feet" when the agriculture industry needed urgent action from ministers.
"Labour should be judged on what it has failed to achieve with the powers and budget available to it, and we will be judged on what we promise to achieve within the powers and budget available to us."
Conservative attacks on the performance of the Welsh NHS under Labour are seen to have been crucial to the Tories achieving their best general elections results in Wales for 30 years in May.
Visiting a farm near Aberystwyth on Saturday, Ms Wood accused Labour of "dragging its feet" when the agriculture industry needed urgent action from ministers.
Plaid Cymru, she said, would end the six-day standstill rule for livestock.Plaid Cymru, she said, would end the six-day standstill rule for livestock.
The regulation, brought in after the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, means that, with some exceptions, when cattle sheep and goats are moved onto a holding animals cannot leave the premises for six days.The regulation, brought in after the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, means that, with some exceptions, when cattle sheep and goats are moved onto a holding animals cannot leave the premises for six days.
"Measures such as the reversal of the six-day standstill rule needs to happen quickly - there is no excuse for the government to have delayed this matter for almost four years," she said."Measures such as the reversal of the six-day standstill rule needs to happen quickly - there is no excuse for the government to have delayed this matter for almost four years," she said.
Plaid Cymru are currently the third party in Cardiff Bay, with 11 seats compared to 30 for Labour and 14 for the Conservatives, with the Liberal Democrats on 5. In the conference hall, Plaid members backed a call for famous Welsh people to be represented on UK bank notes.
The conference voted in favour of a motion calling on the Bank of England to ensure that at least one Welsh figure is portrayed on the £5, £10, £20 or £50 note at any one time.
David Rees, a party activist from Caerphilly, said that since 1970, when the Bank of England launched its range of historical figures for banknotes, "not one of the figures they have chosen has come from Wales".
"Scotland, and even Ireland, have each supplied one person so far, yet no-one from Wales has ever apparently done enough to earn the privilege," he said.
Mr Rees conceded that the bank had announced the next £5 note will feature an image from each of the four UK nations.