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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8
Sue, are you okay to cover some of this?
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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8
Well, I would like to ask Sue to intervene here, just to provide more background information on this.
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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8
Thanks very much. We covered GP training. So, the Royal College of General Practitioners do cover a lot of this in their curriculum. So, safeguarding, domestic violence, hate crimes, all of those things are covered in RCGP training. But what you're talking…
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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8
Well, I think WAST takes this very seriously and I'm surprised that they haven't come back to you, so we'll get onto that, just to find out what's going on there. They do take this very seriously. That routine enquiry is audited by health boards and trusts…
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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8
Thanks very much. Well, routine enquiry is standardised, particularly within the all-Wales pregnancy pathway. And women are routinely asked. So, they're asked twice—not just once but twice—and perhaps in particular if their partner is with them, for example…
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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8
Okay, well I think you've got to see this—. There are three different aspects, okay? So, you've got 'ask and act', you've got the identification and referral to improve safety programme, and we've got the national training framework as well. So, the…
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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8
Oh, okay.
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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8
Thanks very much. The 'ask and act' programme again is something that has kind of fallen out of the Act, and again, is something that is led by the Minister for Social Justice. What's happened is that Welsh Ministers have published a number of statutory…
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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8
—and leads on this with the police and crime commissioner for mid and west Wales, so it's very much a joint approach on that more serious side of things. Can I ask Alex to come in a bit more about the broader community collaboration?
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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8
I think you're right. I think we've got to distinguish between the more serious, where we get the police involved—. I think IRIS covers that, and the fact that there's a really close collaboration on the IRIS programme between the police and the health…
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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8
The first thing to say is that we're on a journey here, and, obviously, since the Act has been introduced, I think things have improved significantly. The very fact that we've had over 300,000 people go through training specifically in this area tells you…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: National Health Service
What is key is that the NHS in 1948 was free at the point of need and it remains free at the point of need today. I'm sure that, across the Chamber, we still would like to adhere to that very important principle. It's a principle that we've really got to…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: National Health Service
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. I'm really pleased to respond to this debate and, again, to take the opportunity to join colleagues across the Senedd in marking this, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the NHS, through supporting today's motion. Yesterday, I had the…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Epilepsy services
I'd like to assure the Siambr that improving outcomes for people with neurological conditions such as epilepsy is a priority for the Welsh Government. Thank you very much.
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Epilepsy services
I'm therefore encouraged to hear that all six health boards are providing specialist epilepsy services across Wales, and they have adopted the open-access model. In February this year, the epilepsy dashboard, as we've heard, was launched. That was developed…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Epilepsy services
Epilepsy Action Cymru's statement gives a useful picture of epilepsy services in Wales. Their report notes that an open-access care model is of great benefit in providing access immediately to people to epilepsy services if their situation should change or if…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Epilepsy services
Epilepsy, as many people have said, is a serious but common neurological condition that, as we’ve heard, can be frightening, unpredictable and massively disruptive to people’s lives. Around 1 per cent of the population of Wales have epilepsy, as many have…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Epilepsy services
Thank you very much to Luke Fletcher for raising this very important issue in the Siambr today, and thank you to every Member who has contributed in the debate. I have listened very carefully to everyone's contributions, and a number of important points have…
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Topical Questions
I cannot and will not provide a running commentary on the evidence the inquiry is taking, and I'm not going to prejudge or speculate on any of the conclusions the inquiry may come to at the end of this module. As you know, we have got this special purpose…
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Topical Questions
The inquiry is continuing to take oral evidence as part of module 1 about resilience and preparedness. As I said, the transcript is available of all the oral evidence given by witnesses. What is clear is that the inquiry has not yet reached any conclusions. I…
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Topical Questions
Thank you very much. Yesterday, witnesses from Wales gave evidence as part of module 1 of the COVID-19 UK public inquiry regarding resilience and preparedness. A transcript provides a full record of the evidence that was given.
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS at 75
Thanks very much, and it's great to hear you, again, paying tribute to Aneurin Bevan. Today I had the pleasure of being at an event where Aneira Thomas, who was, of course, the first baby born in the NHS across the United Kingdom, but she happened to be…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS at 75
Thanks, Gareth. As I say, today is not the day to be drawn on a political fight in relation to the NHS, today is a day to celebrate the incredible contribution of the people who make up the NHS, so I will be making some statements later on during the week…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS at 75
Diolch yn fawr, Jane, and it was a very poignant moment, as you point out, this morning, because what we've got to remember is those people who gave their lives during the pandemic on the front line, those people we all applauded on those evenings during the…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS at 75
Thanks very much, Rhianon. It's really quite moving to hear about your family history, and I do think that we all take the NHS for granted at our peril. We have got to fight for this, as Aneurin Bevan suggested. It will only continue as long as we have the…
