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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much, Rhianon. You're quite right to point out the fact that we are in a very difficult situation financially at the moment, so we've got to make absolute best use of the resources that we have, we've got to try and avoid people using the…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much. And thanks, first of all, for recognising the incredible work that staff at emergency departments undertake. I know that there's been a recent Public Health Wales survey that has demonstrated that 86 per cent of people agreed that emergency…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, thanks very much and it's obviously something that I know the health board has considered very seriously. But the fact is, in relation in particular to the Abergavenny minor injury unit, on average, there was one patient there overnight. Now, in these…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Our six goals for urgent and emergency care programme is supporting people to access the right care, in the right place, first time. We have made £25 million available, including £3 million to each health board, to deliver improvements to 111 online, new…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
I've said in the statement yesterday that we are already exploring more meaningful ways of measuring the patient experience and outcomes and we’re happy to continue with that dialogue with the Royal College on that issue. But breach exemptions are there…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
So, it was the consultants and the clinicians themselves who asked us to introduce a mechanism through which they would not have to run against the clock. It was they themselves who wanted us to introduce that. So, we were complying with what they asked us to…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
I just have provided you with an answer. I told you that the question that was asked by the royal college was fundamentally flawed. That was the problem. The question they asked was fundamentally flawed. It said—. The question they asked was: the data include…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
What I can tell you is that the question that was asked by the royal college, in its wording, was flawed. They made an assumption that data did not include patients who had breached the exemptions. The fact is that that is not the case. So, they made an…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, you can continue to trot out something that is fundamentally wrong, if you'd like, but the fact is that we have made it absolutely clear to health boards that breach exemptions should not be excluded from published emergency department statistics, and…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, thanks very much. What you know is that, actually, it's one of the priorities of the Labour Government in Wales: we introduced the real living wage, and it was not an insignificant amount of money for us to invest in what we know is a very challenged…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
In line with 'A Healthier Wales', I expect people to have access to an increasingly wide range of health services in their communities. Services are integrated with local authority and third sector services designed to support people to stay well, and live…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much. What we know is that kidney disease affects about 6 to 8 per cent of the Welsh population. What I can tell you is that there are several examples of increased capacity in South Wales Central recently. Three new dialysis stations opened in…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Diolch yn fawr. The Welsh Kidney Network commission renal services in Wales, with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board providing renal services in south-east Wales. Treatment and support for people with kidney disease should be provided as close to home…
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Group 11: Scrutiny procedure for regulations under section 10A(1) (Amendments 24, 26, 13)
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Group 11: Scrutiny procedure for regulations under section 10A(1) (Amendments 24, 26, 13)
I also note there is a resemblance to section 18 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006. But the power in that Act was very different from the power we are proposing in this Bill. That was a provision that gave Ministers the power, by Order, to…
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Group 11: Scrutiny procedure for regulations under section 10A(1) (Amendments 24, 26, 13)
All three of these amendments, 24, 26 and 13 are interlinked and essentially provide for a new super-superaffirmative procedure for the regulations to be made under new section 10A, as inserted by section 3 of the Bill. I recognise that the power we propose…
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Group 10: Review of the operation of regulations under section 10A (Amendment 6)
Amendment 6 is a revised version of an amendment tabled by the Member at Stage 2. During Stage 2 proceedings, I explained that whilst I agreed with the premise of the amendment as drafted, it didn't achieve the intended outcome and therefore couldn’t be…
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Group 9: Interaction with the wider policy, legislative and strategic context (Amendment 4)
Diolch, Llywydd. In relation to amendment number 4, I made a commitment during the general principles debate to include within the explanatory memorandum that will accompany the future regulations an assessment of whether the future regulations engage the…
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Group 8: Compliance with the public sector equality duty (Amendment 3)
Diolch, Llywydd. As the Member has set out, amendment 3 would require Welsh Ministers to lay a statement before the Senedd prior to making regulations under what would be the new section 10A, as inserted by section 3 of the Bill, explaining how the Welsh…
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Group 7: Consultation regarding regulations under section 10A(1) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (Amendment 22)
Thank you, Llywydd. As the Member has set out, amendment 22 would place a new requirement to publish a summary of responses received to any consultation undertaken prior to making regulations under the new section 10A. Publishing a summary of responses to a…
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Group 6: Involvement of the voluntary sector and third sector (Amendment 21)
Additionally, the statutory third sector regime already provides for close and ongoing engagement between the Welsh Government and the third sector through biannual meetings with each Minister, plus meetings of the third sector partnership council. Therefore…
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Group 6: Involvement of the voluntary sector and third sector (Amendment 21)
Amendment 21 requests that, prior to making future regulations, the Welsh Ministers should lay a statement of policy before, and for the approval of, the Senedd, on the promotion of the involvement of the voluntary and third sectors in the procurement of…
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Group 5: Operation of regulations under section 10A(1) (Amendments 14, 16, 19, 23, 25)
Well, it's called devolution, Adam. It's called devolution, and we decide what's right for us. What we're doing here is we're having a framework Bill. We'll have a look at what's appropriate, and it may be, when it comes to regulations, that we will want to…
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Group 5: Operation of regulations under section 10A(1) (Amendments 14, 16, 19, 23, 25)
Of course, I agree with the underpinning, underlying, principle of amendment 14, that is, to ensure that workers receive payments that are in line with the real living wage. As a Government, we're already undertaking a number of initiatives to promote and…
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Group 4: Impact of regulatory alignment or divergence (Amendments 2, 18)
Diolch, Llywydd. I understand why the Member has raised amendment No. 2 on the issue of continuity of cross-border services under the proposed new health service procurement regime. Maintaining continuity of existing service levels for the citizens of Wales…
