内容摘要：Councillor Carter thanked the council's lived-experience consultees, calling them "inspirational people [who] have quite rightly held us to account".

Councillor Carter thanked the council's lived-experience consultees, calling them "inspirational people [who] have quite rightly held us to account".

"There isn't a consistent formula being applied across Wales."We would like to see a level playing field between health boards on how we deliver our services."

The Welsh government said it recognised the vital role of hospices and it was "committed to strengthening and improving end-of-life care".It said: "We have allocated an additional £4m to be shared amongst 12 commissioned hospices in Wales, helping them to maintain services, retain staff and improve bereavement support."The cost of living crisis has heavily impacted these services.

"This funding will ensure people across Wales continue to receive high quality palliative and end-of-life care from the network of hospices."Health and Social Care Secretary Eluned Morgan said: "This funding will help to ensure they can continue to provide these vital services and keep on providing high-quality care across Wales."

Wes Streeting has defended the timescale for reforming adult social care in England, with proposals on its long-term funding unlikely to be delivered before 2028.

The health and social care secretary is promising "to finally grasp the nettle on social care reform", but said on Friday the process "would take time".Speaking after the meeting, Binet defended the decision to get rid of the women's health strategy – a strongly criticised move.

He said: "We are oversubscribed last year on our budget and we were oversubscribed this year, and it's not because of a lack of discipline, there is a lot of savings going on, the cost of health requirements are going up exponentially, way above the cost of living."The minister told the scrutiny panel that he would need in "excess of £100m in five years to improve preventative care including women's health, and I want that as additional money. I don't care where that money comes from, even if it's the strategic reserve."

Doublet said she was concerned by those remarks.She said: "It is concerning that the strategic reserve fund might be used for health funding, and that's something the panel will be discussing and we will be questioning the minister further on that."