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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I will, but let me remind you that it was the Conservatives who stopped the proposal to build a new hospital in west Wales several years ago. And if it had been followed through at that time and if you hadn't led a campaign—you, the Tories, led a campaign…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The Welsh Government is working closely with the health board to improve access to safe and timely health and care services. This includes an additional £2.74 million to support improvements in urgent and emergency care this year.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
We're monitoring each health board all the time. So, we have a team of experts, we have the NHS executive, and we're doing that on a regular basis. We are benchmarking, we are making comparisons on a whole range of areas. I now have monthly meetings with the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you very much. You've put your finger on the button there in terms of where the problem is. Certainly, delayed transfers of care are absolutely in my sights constantly, as they are within Dawn's sights as the Minister responsible for social care. So…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Each NHS organisation submits its financial plan as part of the integrated medium-term plan process. Formal monthly monitoring by my officials is then undertaken throughout the year, with additional support by the NHS executive. This is further supported…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thanks very much. I'm afraid there are longer waits, you're quite right, for non-urgent cases. It's all categorised according to some very medical and technical issues. The average response wait for a red call is about 15 minutes, but, obviously, this was a…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thanks very much, and I'm really sorry to hear about that example, Hefin. I hope you'll send my condolences on to the family. Obviously, I can't comment on an individual case, but I think the principle of the welfare call is something that I will look into…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
All calls to the Welsh ambulance service are prioritised based on the relative clinical severity of symptoms as described by the caller, to ensure those with the greatest clinical need are prioritised to receive the best possible response to maximise their…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thanks very much, Vikki. Isn't it absolutely true that straight after the cancer question, we come straight into a diagnostic question? That is where the bottleneck is, as I say, and this is an example of us actually investing in the diagnostic capacity. What…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you. I think, first of all, that we need to say that, on average, people in Wales wait 22 weeks to get treatment. But you're quite right, when it comes to cancer, we need to move more swiftly, and that's why I think that the situation at present is not…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
We are determined to reduce long waiting times across Wales. The number of people waiting for two years has fallen every month since we published our planned care recovery plan. In March 2024, the number waiting two years was 71 per cent less than in March…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thanks very much. You will be aware that we have more people working in the Welsh NHS than we've ever had before—110,000 workers. That's 12 per cent more than three years ago. And when it comes to medical and dental, we have 12 per cent more. So, that's 892…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Despite the financial climate, we continue to invest in the sustainability of our NHS workforce, maintaining the significant levels of funding for training new workforce into 2024-25. We are also delivering nationally run programmes to both support ethical…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The threshold for a public inquiry is not low, but, obviously, we will always keep these matters under consideration. The Welsh Government met with the health board on 3 June for the enhanced monitoring meeting in relation to maternity and neonatal services…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I think my colleague Jayne Bryant has just comprehensively answered the questions relating to the investigations into north Wales—investigations, let’s not forget, that were commissioned by the Welsh Government, so that is our responsibility to make sure that…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I'm not going to apologise for wanting to modernise the health service. I am modernising the health service but I want to go further, and if there was a Labour Government in Westminster, there would be an opportunity to go even further. So, I'm not going to…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thanks very much. Well, I've obviously been keeping a close eye on the situation and, tomorrow, I have a meeting, along with the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, to seek assurances and get an update on the action that is being…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
'A Healthier Wales' sets out our vision and our priorities, namely a comprehensive health and social care system with seamless services, which focuses on prevention and community-based care, and going to hospital only when needed.
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Debate: The Infected Blood Inquiry Report
I'd like some time to go through the report. He has taken years to write this report and we need to give it the respect it deserves, and so we will do that. And I want to assure Jenny Rathbone that there is, as you have noted, already a duty of candour in the…
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Debate: The Infected Blood Inquiry Report
I also want to pay tribute to Rhun ap Iorwerth for his work as chair of the cross-party group on haemophilia and infected blood. I know that you have been fighting very hard for many years, along with those who have been battling for justice.
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Debate: The Infected Blood Inquiry Report
Diolch yn fawr. I want to thank all Members who have contributed to this important debate today. I think it's been a really emotional debate, and it has been quite heart-wrenching to hear some of the stories of your constituents. There are just a few points I…
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Debate: The Infected Blood Inquiry Report
Dirprwy Lywydd, the scandal of infected blood is a dark stain on the history of the NHS and of our public institutions. We must be better, and we must do better than the denials, the false reassurances, the complacency, the cover-ups, the obfuscations and the…
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Debate: The Infected Blood Inquiry Report
Dirprwy Lywydd, it was a tragedy for everyone who was infected and affected. Sadly, many of them are no longer with us. I want to give assurances to those listening today that changes have been made and, very importantly, that the service and the blood supply…
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Debate: The Infected Blood Inquiry Report
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. Thank you for the opportunity to have this debate today, following the publication of the infected blood inquiry's final report last month. I want to be clear: this was the worst treatment scandal in the history of the NHS…
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Motion to suspend Standing Orders
Formally.
