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15 February 2022Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd, for the opportunity to update Members on the current public health situation and the outcome of the latest review of the coronavirus regulations, which was carried out last week. Wales is currently at alert level 0. We have passed the…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Diolch yn fawr.
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
I'm afraid I'll have to send you that information. I've got it all written down somewhere, but I can't put my hands on it at this moment.
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, we've certainly got—. It does show the booster on the domestic app now.
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
That's a different thing. So, there's the domestic pass, and then there's the international pass. The international pass is different, and that's where you need the booster to be put on, and that needs to be an agreement with the UK Government. So, it's…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Can I send you the dates specifically on when it will be on the COVID pass? It's fairly imminent, Mike—it's fairly imminent.
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
I'm just trying to look at my little notes about when the vaccination is going to be—. So, we're going to be in a position where we've got online booking to rebook your vaccination from 14 February—so that's a lovely Valentine's gift for somebody there. We're…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
I'll come in first with a political answer, if you don't mind, Joyce, and then I'll ask Chris to contribute. The fact is that the UK Government is now clearly going hell for leather in terms of dismantling any protections in relation to COVID. That is, I…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, we keep on being told that it's coming by the UK Government, particularly the third dose that has been a real issue for a lot of people who want to go abroad. So, that has been an issue that they're aware of and that they need to sort out for…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
We're going to develop a Welsh NHS app, and that is on course. I can't remember when that's coming. I've got a date somewhere, but I don't have it to hand.
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
It's a massive job to develop something that is quite sophisticated, and we already have challenges in relation to digital in Wales, and we've got to work out where our priorities are going to be. I'm very, very keen to get on with e-prescribing. And so…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, it's something that I think you need to ask your UK Government colleagues, Russell, because we've been asking them for months on end to try and resolve this situation, so that when it comes to the digital app that we use for our domestic purposes, there…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Yes. I know that they have been considering this issue for a long time and, of course, you do have to bear in mind what the impact of that would be on the rest of the vaccination programme. So, if we were to see, for example, that immunity decreased amongst…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you very much. Well, we are in the position where we are awaiting the JCVIs recommendations, and we are expecting them—well, we were expecting them this week, truth be told, but they haven't come to hand yet. I think that it is fair to say that we have…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
That was my first time going through winter as well.
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, I guess the thing to do is to take a look at the integrated medium-term plans. So, when they come in, once they've been agreed, you should get a lot of information about what the winter plan will look like. The other winter plan is like a booster on top…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
What we're trying to do is to address the issue through a massive training programme, which is why we've got 12,000 people who'll be trained additionally, and let's not forget that I think it's about a 53 per cent increase in terms of the numbers of people…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks, Joyce. Well, obviously we've been in a very reactive mode when it comes to vaccinations, because if you think about how quickly we had to mobilise the booster vaccination, which was absolutely heroic—. To an extent this is determined by the…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
It's about capacity and staffing and all of those other things that we've touched on before, Mike.
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
I'm going to ask Nick or Judith to come in on that.
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Mike, I love the way you always come up with these quirky ideas; I think it's great to hear that, and I think it is something that we've got to consider. Understanding how people live is something that we definitely need to write in, but, to be honest, Mike…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
You've clearly got to be flexible, but you have got to understand that there are financial implications, and if you don't have the money spent, there's a danger that you finish up at the end of the year without being able to spend the money, and then people…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
It's written into the IMTP at the beginning of the year. What we do, effectively, is we update what we think is coming our way. Clearly, at a time of COVID, where it's more unpredictable than ever, you need to allow some flexibility to respond to what may be…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
The benefit is that you know what your budget is. You need to build in your winter plan to the budget, so you need to have a pretty good idea that you need to hold some money back for the end of the year. That is something that it makes sense for us to ask…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
It's kind of written in to the IMTP at the beginning of the process. Judith has been much closer to this than I have, over years and years and years, so, if you don't mind, Judith might be able to give us a bit more chapter and verse.