Top doctor denies influencing NHS report

Dr Chris Jones, the medical director of the Welsh NHS, has denied that his emails to Professor Marcus Longley were an attempt to influence the professor's report on the future shape of the health service. In one email he wrote about the need for 'a persuasive vision of how things could be better'.

Dr Jones told the Assembly's health committee that the email was 'feedback on his emerging findings'. Earlier, Professor Longley had told the committee that Dr Jones' email referred to how the government would respond to his report once it was published.