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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much. I'm more than happy to send you the revised target that I've sent out to the NHS. I've made it clear to them that we have got to stick to a plan. We've discussed this with them, in terms of what the targets are, and whether they think…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much. We have got a ring-fenced amount of money for the pre-diabetes programme I was talking about. We've got £1 million for that programme, and that's being rolled out. Every health board in Wales really understands this. The secret is to get…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much, Alun. What you know is we've got this quality statement, so people know what 'good' looks like, so they should be working to that. And now we have the NHS exec holding health boards to account for delivering on what 'good' looks like. What I…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
I made an oral statement to the Senedd on 13 June, describing our approach to improving diabetes services, as set out in the quality statement for diabetes. My officials discussed the implications of the quality statement for local delivery with NHS chief…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, thanks very much, and you're quite right to highlight the fact that, actually, in terms of childhood vaccinations, we don't have a bad level, but, actually, the pandemic pushed things back a bit. So, we do have about 20 per cent of the child population…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much, Altaf. Part of what will happen next is that we have this new constituted organisation, this group, the NHS health inequalities group, and what they're going to do is to focus on a small number of areas, which aim to maximise the…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much. I've looked at that report and I think there are a lot of things for us to consider and to act upon. Before we get to stage 4, I think we've got to get to the prevention bit of it, and you heard the announcement yesterday by my colleague…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
In collaboration with Public Health Wales and the World Health Organization's regional office for Europe, Welsh Government launched the Welsh health equity solutions platform on 22 June, to monitor the management of health inequalities across Wales, and it's…
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Motion to vary the order of consideration of Stage 3 amendments to The Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill
Formally.
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: National Immunisation Programme for Wales
Diolch yn fawr, Joyce Watson. You're absolutely right—I think it makes sense also for us just to focus a little while on the situation in relation to HPV. As you've suggested, at the moment we give it in two doses, but expert advice from both the WHO and from…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: National Immunisation Programme for Wales
Thank you very much. I want to thank you not only for the joke, that was quite good, fair play to you, but also for the fact that you know what shingles is in Welsh. That was fairly impressive, I have to say. In terms of misinformation, I do think that this…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: National Immunisation Programme for Wales
Thanks very much. So, I can give you some details on the situation in relation to the spring booster in terms of figures. So, what we've had is the delivery of 277,000 booster vaccinations—that was up til 22 June—and that includes about 76 per cent of care…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: National Immunisation Programme for Wales
Ensuring equitable access to vaccination is a key priority that underpins every aspect of the national immunisation framework. All health boards are developing plans to deliver the ambition of reducing and eventually eliminating the inequalities that…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: National Immunisation Programme for Wales
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm really pleased today to update Members on the development of the national immunisation framework and the incredible work that has been going on in recent months to create a vaccination system for Wales that is fit for the…
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Short Debate: The repurposing of drugs to treat rare diseases
Unfortunately, without randomised controlled trials, we cannot guarantee that the repurposed treatment will work effectively, and therefore MHRA cannot provide a licence. To help fill the evidence gap, the repurposing programme for UK medicines was…
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Short Debate: The repurposing of drugs to treat rare diseases
Diolch yn fawr. I want to thank the Member for South Wales Central for raising this important issue. I’d like to assure Members that the Welsh Government is committed to improving the lives of those with rare diseases. Rare diseases can be both life limiting…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—Dentistry
Another of the recommendations was to do with recovering the Designed to Smile scheme in schools. We know that this service has had a positive impact on dental outcomes for children up to seven years old since it was established 13 years ago—and I thank Mike…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—Dentistry
Thanks very much. Well, of course, we are training more than we've ever trained before. We're spending £280 million a year on training people, so we're already very much in the system. I'm keen to see what more we can do to make sure that we get a return on…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—Dentistry
Yes, of course.
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—Dentistry
Diolch yn fawr. Before I respond, I would like to put on record my thoughts and concerns for all the people who have been involved in the very serious incident at Withybush hospital today. I'd like to express my thanks to all the services who are helping to…
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Short Debate: Cancer inequalities in Wales
Delyth, thank you for being so passionate and so powerful in your presentation. I think this report is something that we're going to have to take very seriously, and I'm very aware that it is important to have awareness-raising campaigns. Very interesting…
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Short Debate: Cancer inequalities in Wales
We are taking a number of steps at a national level to cover the factors that have an influence on people's health: for example, Flying Start; the steps to tackle poor housing and air pollution; our employability programme; and our plans to tackle tobacco use…
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Short Debate: Cancer inequalities in Wales
Diolch yn fawr. I'd like to thank Delyth Jewell for tabling this short debate on cancer and inequality, and, in particular, thanks to the cross-party group for its work on the 'All Things Being Equal?' report. I know that the deputy chief medical officer…
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Point of Order
Thanks very much. I’d like to thank Darren Millar for the opportunity to set out the situation. The director general of the NHS in Wales, Judith Paget, spoke directly to the then chief executive of Betsi, Jo Whitehead, following the Audit Wales report that…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Quality Statement for Diabetes
Thanks very much, Joel. There's a reason why I haven't mentioned the SEREN programme, and that's because this is an NHS quality statement. The SEREN programme is very much an education programme for children and young people, so it's not directly NHS in that…
