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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thanks very much. Well, you've heard we've already started, and those targeted lung health checks have already been piloted, and I think we're working really successfully. We're assessing that now and analysing the data. What has happened is that Health…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thanks very much. And I've got to tell you that I was at those awards and it was one of the most uplifting things that I've been involved with this year. So, congratulations to everybody who were nominated, but in particular to those who won and in particular…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The Welsh Government has published a policy for cancer that focuses on ensuring people have access to high-quality diagnostic and treatment services for conditions such as lung cancer. Our approach is based on supporting NHS organisations to deliver care in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, I can tell you our Government has, actually, prioritised the NHS over everything else. We have seen a 4 per cent increase in relation to funding on the NHS, when they've only given a 1 per cent increase in England. So, that's not something for us to…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, there's no question about it, we are living in challenging times. I don't think anybody understands that more than we do in the Cabinet. We had to go through some really, really difficult decisions last year, and you went through some difficult…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, you'll be aware that it is for us to determine where the money goes in Wales, and the fact is that we determine differently and we probably will continue to determine differently, because we'll do what we think is right for the Welsh population. This…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thanks very much. As you will know, Altaf, the longest waits have fallen 70 per cent since their peak in March 2022, and I'm not going to apologise for the fact that we treat the most urgent cases first. We, of course, also count waiting times very…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thanks very much. Well, we're obviously waiting until the general election is over, and then we'll be waiting for the recommendations of the pay review board to be published, and then we will, obviously, need to enter a negotiation on where we settle in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, thank you very much, Altaf Hussain, and you'll know that we are taking this very seriously. The fact is we are training more nurses than ever before. We've put more money into it. We've got international recruitment exercises, including with India, and…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you very much, Altaf, and, as I say, we are looking at this. This review is being undertaken and I'm expecting that to report in August. And we have got a group of absolute experts who are looking in particular at the issue of ultra-processed foods…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
A comprehensive review of the all-Wales nutrition and catering standards for food and fluid provision for hospital in-patients is currently under way. This review will be informed by expert advice from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, which…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, thanks very much, Gareth, for your question. I’ve got to tell you that the NHS in Betsi Cadwaladr is making more contacts than it's ever made before with the population there. Also, if you look at the number of GPs and the fact that they’ve all signed…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Our vision in 'A Healthier Wales' is for people to have equity of access to an increasing range of community services to support them to stay well and live independently. Local partners are expected to collaborate to build community capacity and design and…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
Thanks very much. You are quite right, Jenny. I just think about how tiring it is to have a meeting every half an hour, and our GPs are asked to have a meeting every eight minutes. You can imagine the intensity of that, and how difficult that is. So, of…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
Thanks very much, John, and thank you also for the work that you do with Elliot and his family. We are quite focused on rare diseases and, as you know, we have a special programme that really focuses on that. But, you're quite right, we do need to make sure…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
—but that is really good, and it's important, I think, that we keep on training the next generation. But, as you say, keeping people in the workforce is also important. What we did do is that we kept the same amount of money, and I think that that is not…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
Thanks very much. Of course, Gareth, you are one of those people who were trained in the NHS, I don't know if you were trained in Wales—
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
Thanks very much, and thank you, also, for drawing attention to the fact that it's not just Bangor in north Wales where we're training people for healthcare; Wrexham is really quite significant, and we've got to be absolutely clear that training people in the…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
So, 12 per cent of an increase in Wales, 3 per cent in England. The number of oncologists has increased significantly, and there are many more in the pipeline, but these aren't people you can switch on overnight. In terms of the priorities, we've made it…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
—largest proportional increase in oncologists across the four nations.
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
Thank you very much, Mabon, and the fact that we have made those changes in terms of ensuring that people can be more flexible in their work, hopefully, will lead to a shift in terms of the number working as agency staff and they'll work directly for the NHS…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
Thank you very much, Sam. As you know, we were very financially challenged in the budget this year. It was because—. I was very grateful to my colleagues around the Cabinet table that they were willing to support health. We've seen an increase of 4 per cent…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
Last year,I announced that we will be funding up to 140 medical student places a year at the new north Wales medical school, with direct intake from September of this year onwards. Establishing a medical school in north Wales will help us to train more…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
Diolch yn fawr. Thank you for the opportunity to make this important statement about investment in education and training of healthcare professionals. The NHS in Wales makes contact with around 2 million contacts a month in a population of just over 3 million…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch yn fawr.
