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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—'Waiting well? The impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales'
Buffy Williams was asking me about cancer care, and you'll be aware that there are new rapid diagnostic centres now in every health board. The Cardiff one will be coming online later this year. Seventy-five million pounds has been provided to upgrade…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—'Waiting well? The impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales'
We have established a committed team. The national recovery director will lead the health service to ensure that our recovery programme is delivered. Every health board has been given additional funding to be used to help them to transform and to deliver…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—'Waiting well? The impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales'
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to reply to this important debate around the 'Waiting well?' report and waiting times. I'm very pleased that we were able to accept almost all of the recommendations, 26 out of 27. Obviously…
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Topical Questions
Thank you. As you’re aware, I was pleased to see, for the first time, that those waiting for two years and longer, that those lists are coming down for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. So, we’re travelling in the right direction, but, of…
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Topical Questions
Thanks very much, Andrew. I absolutely am very aware of the fact that there are certain conditions where we have to move fast, and this is one of them, which is why what we've done is to ask clinicians to sort out priorities, to put people into categories so…
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Topical Questions
Diolch yn fawr. Llywydd, Gwyn Williams, who is our ophthalmology clinical lead, along with the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, has worked with us to develop an eye care strategy, which we are now implementing. Over the past 12 months, eye care services…
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Inquiry into violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—migrant women: ministerial evidence session
I just wanted to draw attention to a particular programme that we have, that I think has been super successful, in terms of trying to pick up on the signs where people are aware that something's going on. So, the identification and referral to improve…
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Inquiry into violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—migrant women: ministerial evidence session
I don't know if you've got anything to add, Heather.
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Inquiry into violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—migrant women: ministerial evidence session
If there’s a severe health risk, then, no, we won't. And obviously these are decisions that are not all undertaken by us, they're UK Government-based decisions and obviously we have to comply with those as well.
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Inquiry into violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—migrant women: ministerial evidence session
Thanks. First of all, people who don’t normally live here do not automatically get care free of charge, and the decision, when it comes to primary care, is made by the primary care provider, who will know the patient, who will know the circumstances and make…
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Inquiry into violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—migrant women: ministerial evidence session
Well, the answer is: we don't share data with the Home Office, unless there is a very extreme reason for us to do that, and, obviously, we then have to comply with UK law. But it would have to be under those extreme circumstances that that would happen. So…
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Inquiry into violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—migrant women: ministerial evidence session
Can I ask Heather to take this, if you don't mind?
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Inquiry into violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—migrant women: ministerial evidence session
Thanks. What I can tell you is that we've got about 714 community pharmacies who've been provided with campaign materials. I think we probably do need to go a bit further in terms of making sure that they are available in different languages. So, I think that…
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Inquiry into violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—migrant women: ministerial evidence session
I think it's important for us to emphasise that, actually, there has been a massive amount of training in relation to safeguarding within the NHS, where we've had, I think, about 0.25 million people going through our training. So, it's a requirement if you…
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Inquiry into violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—migrant women: ministerial evidence session
Yes. I think the NHS is there for everybody. We very much see that that is the situation. Obviously, we have to comply with the UK Government position in terms of rules, in terms of finance and things, but, when it comes to violence against women, I think…
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Debate on the Standards of Conduct Committee Report—Fourth Report to the Sixth Senedd under Standing Order 22.9
I am aware of the responsibility upon us all as Members to lead by example, and I accept that I haven't maintained the standards required of us as Members of the Senedd in this case. I want to make it clear in the Senedd today that I apologise to you all, my…
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Debate on the Standards of Conduct Committee Report—Fourth Report to the Sixth Senedd under Standing Order 22.9
I'd like to thank the standards committee for their work and for their consideration of the standards commissioner's report. I'm aware that the role of elected representatives is to lead by example. There's an expectation on all of us to uphold the highest…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you very much, and we certainly hope that will happen. Of course, we've already provided £2 million in order to ensure that we see a delivery in this area and, certainly, what we want to see in terms of the capacity on that board and the kinds of people…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
The end-of-life care board is currently preparing to transition into the new programme board for end-of-life care from 1 July 2022. The work programme for the new board is currently in development, and it will support a range of end-of-life care enabling…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you very much. Well, certainly I'm very eager to see 'More than just words' continuing and evolving and becoming more aggressive in terms of what we expect to see from the health boards in terms of provision. In terms of quality of care for young…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. At present, the C21 north Wales medical training programme at Bangor University is delivered in collaboration with Cardiff University. This initiative was introduced to reflect the Welsh Government’s commitment to deliver medical training in north…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks, Jane, and thanks for your continued focus on this issue. It's certainly keeping my feet to the fire. I'm pleased to say that this new contract will, as I say, hopefully see 5,000 additional people who currently can't get access to NHS dentists in…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks, Russell. I would accept that there is currently a capacity issue, and that's why I'm spending quite a lot of my time now trying to address this very issue. We are making steady progress with the recovery of dental services. And whilst I accept that it…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, a follow-up from the last question. Certainly, the health boards are responsible for the planning and assessment of dental provision to meet the local population needs. The Welsh Government is working on reforming the dental contract to focus on…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks very much. First of all, I think it's really important that people note that about 20,000 people are treated in terms of dentistry each week in Wales, and the number of dentists has risen in 2018 and 2019 above 1,500. Of course, one of the issues we've…
