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Short Debate: Living with cancer in Wales: Improving access to prehabilitation and rehabilitation services
In last week's cancer conference, health boards were eager to accept the offer of the Wales Cancer Alliance for resources and support for patients waiting on cancer pathways. More generally, our programme for transforming and modernising care was planned and…
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Short Debate: Living with cancer in Wales: Improving access to prehabilitation and rehabilitation services
Diolch yn fawr. Thank you to Altaf Hussain, who is my secret special adviser in the NHS, for bringing forward this short debate and for his recent invitation to Cwm Taf Morgannwg to meet with clinicians delivering those prehabilitation services. I very much…
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Debate on Petition P-06-1294, 'Don't leave metastatic breast cancer patients in Wales behind'
We have noted our broader approach in the quality statement for cancer. The statement includes an expectation that the cancer workforce will be planned to meet the anticipated demand, particularly in clinical and medical oncology, specialist cancer nurses…
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Debate on Petition P-06-1294, 'Don't leave metastatic breast cancer patients in Wales behind'
So, just to be clear, the petition calls for better collection of data on metastatic cancer, and I hope that the petitioners will be pleased to hear that I've approved additional funding to introduce a national clinical audit of metastatic breast cancer in…
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Debate on Petition P-06-1294, 'Don't leave metastatic breast cancer patients in Wales behind'
Specialist clinicians in the Wales Cancer Network have also noted how patients should be treated across Wales in a pathway that's agreed at a national level. Next year, we will introduce a national clinical audit of metastatic breast cancer services in order…
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Debate on Petition P-06-1294, 'Don't leave metastatic breast cancer patients in Wales behind'
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. Thank you to the Petitions Committee for bringing forward this debate during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I'd like to welcome the petitioners to the Chamber, Tassia in particular, and others who have campaigned so vigorously…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
Thank you very much.
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
Thank you. Rhun, you asked about hospital beds. Well, we've got considerably more hospital beds in Wales, according to the Nuffield Trust, than they do in England. There are 270 beds per 100,000 in Wales; 170 beds per 100,000 in England. But what we're keen…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
Gareth, I would absolutely love to do that, that is absolutely our ambition as a Government, it's in our manifesto, that's what we want to see, it's just that your Government has just made that a hell of a lot more difficult. We've just had a £207 million…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
I'll take an intervention.
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
Altaf, you'll understand that the real challenge is not actually infrastructure, it's staffing. So, that's the issue, and we know that the staffing issue is something that is challenging everywhere, but particularly social care. So, we want people to go home…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
Of course.
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
Diolch yn fawr. I welcome the report, and I'd like to commend the committee on its really thorough approach to the review. The report explores a wide spectrum of areas that can impact patient flow through our hospitals, and ultimately on to discharge and…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Okay, so, when you write a law, you've got to comply with the law, and if the law says, 'You've got have x many nurses in a particular ward', you've got to comply with that law. If you can't do that because you don’t have the nurses, you're in breach of the…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you very much. This is an area that I have asked my officials to focus on. It's difficult to do it, because, as you can imagine, in terms of retention, if you have 1,000 people off sick with COVID, what are you going to do to fill those vacancies? How…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you very much. The Hywel Dda University Health Board workforce is now at record levels, but we recognise the workforce challenges in mid and west Wales alongside significant demand pressures on services.
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much. Well, we are talking about trying to get this booster to 1.6 million eligible people in Wales. That's being delivered through 400 vaccination sites, so I think that does give you the coverage that should allow people to take up that…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
As of 11 October, a total of 363,000 COVID-19 vaccination boosters have been administered in Wales. The programme is on track for all eligible people to receive an invitation for their booster by 30 November, in line with the commitment given in our winter…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. I'm glad to see that we've reduced the age at which we're now sending out faecal immunochemical tests to the over-55s, but you're right, we've got to go further, but we've got to do it at the same time as increasing capacity. We are now looking at…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much, Vikki. Those figures are clearly too low and unacceptable. That's one of the reasons why today I called a cancer summit meeting—a calling together all of the health boards and the leads for cancer in each of the health boards. One of the…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
We're working to improve bowel cancer outcomes by improving diagnostic pathways, lowering the screening age in line with UK National Screening Committee recommendations, and improving the quality of bowel cancer treatment.
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much. I'm really pleased to hear that things are going from strength to strength in Llandudno, and, certainly, when I visited there, one of the things I really focused on was what are these people doing there, how long have they been here, what's…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, we have been training people, and we have seen 54 per cent more people working in the NHS over the past 20 years. In Betsi now, we see that almost 20,000 people work for the health board, and there are plans to recruit 380 more during the next two…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is responsible for the provision of safe, sustainable, high-quality healthcare services for its local population, based on the best and most up-to-date clinical evidence and advice. We've also provided additional…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks. Well, first of all, clinicians should be writing notes; they should be writing notes at the time of treatment. So, there's no excuse for that; that's a requirement. But, in terms of lost notes, I think part of the answer to this is to digitise, which…
