 Hello everybody. I'm Dr Frank Atherton and I'm the new Chief Medical Officer for Wales. I started work here just a couple of weeks ago. I just want to tell you a little bit about myself, about where I've come from and why I've come to Wales and what my aspirations and hopes are for the time that I'm going to be Chief Medical Officer here in Wales. So I'm a general practitioner by training, but I've worked in a number of health systems. I became very interested in international development and I've worked in a number of countries around the world. And then I worked in Lancashire as a Director of Public Health for 10 years. And more recently I've worked in Nova Scotia. And my travels and work experience around the world has convinced me of one important thing and that is that there's no such thing as the perfect health system. There are good elements in health systems everywhere. And there are many good elements of the health system here in Wales and I'm looking forward to hearing and learning about those. A lot of people have asked me, well, why did you move to Wales? And there's a number of reasons behind that decision. First of all, the population size here is 3 million people. We should be able to do something really exciting with that population size. I know that the health indicators are improving and that's great news for Wales. We know that the healthy life expectancy is improving. Some of the disease specific mortality rates are getting better. But there's still a huge challenge because in some areas we lag behind England and we still face enormous health inequalities here in Wales. Partly down to the industrial legacy, partly down to areas of deprivation. But we can do better and we need to do better here in Wales. So I know that there's a level of ambition here and some of the legislation that recently the government has put in place around particularly the health and wellbeing of future generations but also the active travel bill and ACT and the work around social service integration. All of that shows me that there's a great ambition here to make things better for the people of Wales and I'm really excited to be a part of that. People have asked me what my ambitions are in my time as chief medical officer here. It's very early days and I'm still forming the list of things that I'd like to really achieve. But in very broad terms I want to be part of that process of continuing to improve the health experience of people here in Wales and to tackling health inequalities. In more concrete terms that means looking at healthy settings making sure that the work we do in schools, in universities, in the workplace, in prisons that that's all systematically applied and that we're driving forward through healthy settings at work. We need to tackle healthy behaviours. There's unfinished business here around smoking, smoking rates are improving but there's more we need to do. I know that alcohol is a big challenge here and there are other issues around addictions. I'm thinking of gambling, substance misuse. The things which really damage individuals and damaged communities and I think we can do more in those areas. But the biggest challenge I think is to create the environment in Wales. The environment which will be conducive to better health and the legislation that I talked about really can help us to do that. So the challenge is to take that legislation, to take the framework, to take the ambition here in Wales and to turn that into something concrete to make the environment one which makes Wales the place where people can be as healthy as they need to be. So that's a little bit about me. I'm very excited to be here in Wales as the new chief medical officer. I recognise that I've got a lot to learn about the health experience here, the culture of Wales, the politics, the professionals and I'm going to get out and about, I'm going to be visiting health boards, I'm going to be out meeting people and my first few months in post will involve a lot of listening and a lot of learning and I look forward to hearing from you, from everybody, about what you see as the challenges to health here in Wales and what you see equally importantly as the opportunities. Where can we take action to drive forward health for the people of Wales? Thank you very much.