9 May 2023 , Plenary
& 8. The general principles of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill
Turning now to the recommendations made by the Health and Social Care Committee, I'm pleased that, in their first recommendation, the committee has recognised the need for this Bill and has recommended that the Senedd agrees the general principles of the Bill…
9 May 2023 , Plenary
& 8. The general principles of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill
This Bill is partly in response to proposed changes to public procurement in the United Kingdom being brought about by the UK Government. On leaving the EU, the UK Government decided that it wanted to use the presumed new freedoms relating to procurement to…
9 May 2023 , Plenary
& 8. The general principles of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Llywydd. I'm pleased to open this debate on the general principles of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill, and to move the motion on the financial determination. I would like to start by thanking the Senedd committees, the Members and their…
9 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Launch of the NHS App
Thanks very much, Jenny. I absolutely understand the distress that your constituent must have felt. I still find it quite surprising that we're still sending out letters on paper in the NHS today. So, it's not going to happen overnight. This is part of the…
9 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Launch of the NHS App
Thank you very much and thank you for your enthusiasm, because I know that this is an area in which we share that enthusiasm to move forward and make progress, because I do think we need to catch up. I do spend a great deal of time urging the civil service in…
9 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Launch of the NHS App
Thanks very much, Russell. I understand your frustration. The one thing that I have learned in this job is that anything to do with digital takes much longer than I hope for, and it's always very expensive. I think that it is very challenging, partly because…
9 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Launch of the NHS App
There is work under way across all areas of the NHS so that they use the app as their digital front door to health services. We are beginning discussions with colleagues in social care to see what's possible in terms of extending the app so that those people…
9 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Launch of the NHS App
Diolch yn fawr. Today, I am pleased to provide an update on the NHS Wales app and how it will contribute to the transformation of health and social care services in Wales. On 17 April, I announced that the NHS Wales app was being made available to the public…
2 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on the Six Goals for Emergency Care Programme
Thanks very much. Actually, I think what we did over this winter, which was a very intensive discussion with local government—. You know, every two weeks we met and talked about, 'Right, how are we going to deliver these community beds?' We started really…
2 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on the Six Goals for Emergency Care Programme
Thanks very much, Vikki. As I mentioned, I'm hoping that my colleague Lynne Neagle will be able to give a lot more detail on the '111 press 2' service very shortly. I was given a briefing last week on it, and I must say that the results already are incredibly…
2 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on the Six Goals for Emergency Care Programme
I thank you for recognising the significant progress—I think it is significant. It's not over yet, and what's important is that we now go further with the urgent primary care centres, for example. You asked how we're going to place this on a sustainable…
2 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on the Six Goals for Emergency Care Programme
Thank you very much. One of the programmes that we have been focusing on to ensure that people understand the new system is the 'Help Us to Help You' programme, and people across Wales—. If people haven't seen it, you've been living in a cave, because it's…
2 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on the Six Goals for Emergency Care Programme
Thanks very much. It has been probably the most challenging winter that the NHS has ever seen, and one of the reasons for that is because we've seen demand like we've never seen before. Whilst the Member wants to look at a half-empty glass, I'm trying to look…
2 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on the Six Goals for Emergency Care Programme
NHS data show that around 75 per cent of patients accessing these services are receiving the care they need and are returning home without need for hospital admission. This should help to optimise their experience and outcomes whilst also freeing up bed…
2 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on the Six Goals for Emergency Care Programme
The board oversaw delivery of a programme plan in year 1 that has enabled real progress to be made at a national, regional and local level against two priority areas and other key deliverables. The key priority was to support the establishment of new urgent…
2 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on the Six Goals for Emergency Care Programme
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. Thank you for this opportunity to update Members on progress made by the six goals for urgent and emergency care in the 12 months since establishment. I'm pleased to publish a report today outlining progress in detail and to set out…
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
So, I do think that we do need to understand that things have clearly changed since COVID. We’re back in a situation where 70 per cent of people who were having treatment before are now having treatment, but we’ll never get back to 100 per cent without…
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Over 277,000 children have been treated in general dental services since April 2022. More than 60,000 of these are new patients.
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks, Janet, and I want to extend my empathy to those people who are suffering. One in two people are going to get cancer during their lifetime, so we're talking about huge numbers of the population, and in order to get a diagnosis of cancer, to get to the…
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
We set out our expectations of the NHS in the 2021 quality statement for cancer and a series of national actions in our 2022 programme for transforming and modernising planned care. In January of this year, I also announced the NHS response, as set out in the…
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much. Over the past five years, we have increased the number of training places by 41 per cent for nurses. But you're quite right, we've got to find new ways of getting people in, and in particular into some of those areas where it's more…
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you very much. You're aware that the health board has tried very hard to recruit to that area. One of the things that we have in place is the national workforce implementation plan and, as part of that, we are putting incentives in place to target not…
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
We are recruiting and training more nurses than ever before. We are using a range of approaches to recruit and attract staff, including international recruitment and record investment in education and training. Our national workforce implementation plan…
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, thanks very much. And I want to make it clear that no-one should expect to have to pay for this service. So, actually, in terms of audiology, we have a pathway now that is very different from what is happening elsewhere in the United Kingdom. We are…
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
The new NHS Wales pathway, with national clinical standards for the safe delivery of wax management services, is being implemented across all health boards, with advanced progress made by Betsi Cadwaladr and Swansea Bay University Health Boards. Good practice…
