11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
No, per year.
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Are you okay for me to start, and then I'll bring Julie in? First of all, we have an allocation, £144 million, within the regional integration fund. So, we have an allocation there, where there is a responsibility on health boards and local government to work…
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Intermediary medium-term plan. Is that right? Integrated.
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
These are the plans that are a statutory duty now—so, they're in law—that we expect the health boards to present to us, setting out the plan that they have in terms of what they propose to do within their health board—
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Sure.
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Well, obviously, it will be published within their IMTPs, so you'll have the same opportunity. I'll obviously go through and agree the IMTPs before, so there will be a political blessing to the IMTPs, and then, obviously, you'll have an opportunity to…
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
What we're doing at the moment is we've said, 'These are the areas we want you to focus on.' We'll obviously, once they present their IMTPs, need to look at what are the implications of those and to work out if we are genuinely convinced that the other areas…
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
The reality is that when we pass on this funding to health boards, we've got to understand the kind of budgetary pressures that they're under. You've all heard me talk several times about the £207 million bill that we had this year for energy that we weren't…
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
In terms of the budget, obviously, most of it is going directly to the health boards. So, what we've got to do is to try and give them an indication of where we'd like them to focus their spend. In the guidelines in preparation for their IMTPs, I've just made…
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
I think it's probably worth just reminding people that over 50 per cent of the Welsh budget is spent on health and social services, and most of that goes directly to the health boards and to the health trusts. Some of it obviously is kept centrally, some of…
11 January 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Wales Air Ambulance bases reorganisation
I think that some of the points that have been made on the floor of the Chamber today are important and should be taken into account, particularly, I think, the fact that when it's difficult for a helicopter to reach a certain place, you would have to use a…
11 January 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Wales Air Ambulance bases reorganisation
Everyone involved in the work of commissioning and providing these crucial services is eager to ensure that the funding available to them is spent in the best possible way. They would like to reduce the number of patients who can't access the service. In…
11 January 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Wales Air Ambulance bases reorganisation
Diolch, Llywydd, and very many thanks for allowing me to reply to this opposition debate. I'd like to begin by placing on record that I recognise the invaluable partnership between the Wales Air Ambulance Charity and Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer…
11 January 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Wales Air Ambulance bases reorganisation
Formally.
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
Diolch yn fawr. I think it's really important that we recognise that the staffing challenge when it comes to healthcare is a global challenge, so people all over the world are looking for the same people, especially people like anaesthetists. So, we are in a…
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
If the responsibility is entirely on our shoulders, and we are expected to care for everything without people taking responsibility for their own actions, then we're not going to cope. If you look at the situation—[Interruption.] If you look at the situation…
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
Thanks very much, Natasha, because I am absolutely wedded to the idea that, if we are going to transform the way we do, in particular, care, then we're going to have to rely more on technology, and I'm very much looking forward to going to see how the Delta…
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
Diolch yn fawr. Thanks for that, because I think it's really important that people understand that, although there are some examples of not great things happening in the NHS at the moment, there are also hundreds of thousands of great things happening in our…
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
Thank you very much. Just to make it clear, what we're trying to do when it comes to GPs is to ensure that we understand that there are many people who can help, not only GPs. So, increasing the numbers of physiotherapists, of pharmacists in our communities…
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
Thanks very much. Well, as I say, I think we've learned lots of lessons in the past, which is why we did all that preparation work much, much earlier. And I think the situation would have been a lot worse had we not had those urgent primary care centres, had…
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
Thanks very much. Well, I'm very sorry, of course, to hear about that individual case. There are examples where people are getting the support in some of our same-day emergency care centres, where they go in, they get an appointment, they know when they're…
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
Thanks very much. Well, I'm glad that you recognise that there are lots of people who are ready for discharge. It's very interesting that your leader earlier was saying, 'Actually, just be very careful about when you do ask people to leave who are medically…
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
Thanks very much. Well, this is an area where my colleague, Lynne Neagle, takes a leading role in terms of public health. We have, of course, got a very clear programme of activity—'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales'—where we try and encourage people to make sure…
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
Thank you very much. I'm happy to give you a list of where we found that capacity. The capacity of course is reliant on our ability to collaborate with local authorities in the area, and that's where we've been working with them closely, as well as with the…
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
Thank you very much. That was excellent; well done. I think it is important. I hope you have listened to the speech, which demonstrates that we have indeed been very proactive during the summer months in preparing. Obviously, we've never seen anything like…
