“I Am Sure Aneurin Bevan Would Be Turning in His Grave”. Covid-19 in Wales: Highlighting a Dysfunctional System

Abstract

This paper aims to study how the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the weaknesses of the Welsh NHS and more generally public health provision, as its fragmented organisation led to confusing messages from the Welsh and British governments being given just to Welsh people, hence revealing the incoherences of the United Kingdom’s constitutional settlement. Since health is a devolved matter, it will first be necessary to study how the Welsh government handled the epidemic.

Keywords

• NHS
• devolution
• Wales
• Covid-19