title: NHS Plan Wales.
abstract: Following the high profile launch of the English NHS Plan last summer, there has been speculation in Wales about whether we too would have a Plan. Jane Hutt the Welsh Assembly's minister for health became rather defensive after the launch of the English Plan. She accused journalists of posing awkward questions about the lack of a Welsh Plan, of not understanding devolution, and explained that governments in different parts of the UK could and would package their health policies differently. In one respect she was right; journalists, either side of the border, do not understand devolution. In another respect she was wrong; the Welsh government, rather predictably, did package their health policy in much the same way as had been done in England, and our Welsh NHS Plan was launched earlier this month, supported by an additional £1billion over three years.