Welsh Conservatives

Speeches and questions

Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

973 speeches and questions

6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
Right. Okay. I'll leave it there because I don't think what I'm hearing is—
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
Right, okay. So, in terms of the detail of the question about how we expand the Act across the nursing spectrum now, and not just in-patient settings but across community district nursing, how do we best achieve that?
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
Which was passed by the Government—
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
I just don't believe from what we've heard and what you're continuing to say this morning that you have faith in your own system. Obviously, I understand that you weren't health Minister at the time, but your predecessors—. You've inherited that, so, as…
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
—your belief of the Act, because I don't get the—
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
—isn't having the efficacy that it should do. So, I'm struggling to understand where we're going here in terms of—
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
Excuse my ignorance, but I'm struggling to understand here. We've got a Welsh policy here, passed by the Welsh Government in only 2016, which is only seven years ago. I know we've had COVID, as we noted, since then, but we've got you here this morning as the…
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
So, what's the point in the Act, then? If a law in place to tackle nurse workforce recruitment levels and things like that—
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
Has the Act failed, then, in that case?
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to raise the future development of the Act—indeed, if we still believe in it after the evidence that we've heard this morning—and how that expands to other areas. We talk a lot about in-patient wards in hospital settings, but…
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
Thanks.
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
But the Datix forms are nothing new; they're 10, 15 years old at least now, so why is it still the case that we're trying to improve data, when there is seemingly an electronic and universal way to report incidents and things happening on wards, et cetera?
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
Thanks, Chair. I just wanted to come back on the response you gave about Datix forms and some of the quality of data. Unfortunately, I'm getting old enough now to remember using the IR1 forms, which predated the Datix forms.
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
—is a better route in, and it's a bit of a glass-ceiling-breaking exercise, but, still, it's seen as an informal way. But if we're—not intentionally, but—penalising people who choose that route, we could bridge a gap and make that path into nursing a little…
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
But that could be seen as an informalised process compared to necessarily leaving your job, going to university for three years to study nursing, getting yourself into £27,000-worth of debt, whereas the Open University can be a bit of an 'earn as you learn'…
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
When somebody's on the border and their friend's doing it in three years, and they're doing it in six and don't want to do it six—
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
But they're not going to choose to do it over six, though, are they, really?
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
Yes, thanks, Chair. It was just on the training response that you gave, Gill, about the Open University. I'm aware that there is a disparity in nurse training through the Open University between England and Wales, where it takes significantly longer to…
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
Well, you alluded to that, though.
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
I'm quite shocked this morning, actually, because the whole basis of our questions, and the reason for you coming this morning, is to talk about the Act. And in your first set of answers, you're saying that you don't believe the Act's fit for purpose, in a…
6 December 2023Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
Yes, absolutely.
5 December 2023Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I'd like to call for a statement, please, from the Minister for Health and Social Services on what the Welsh Government is doing to ensure that bipolar disorder receives parity of treatment, and is considered with equal importance to other severe mental…
29 November 2023Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Small businesses
Thanks for the nice welcome. Would you accept, though, that business rates are controlled and devolved here in Wales, and that the economy Minister and the Welsh Government in this place have sole control of that and could give the businesses the lease of…
29 November 2023Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you very much for your response, Minister. We've learnt recently that Rhyl High School, in my constituency, has been put into a situation where they've had to introduce shorter days in order to encourage pupils back into school. I'm sure the Minister…
29 November 2023Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
2. What work is the Welsh Government undertaking to ensure good pupil attendance at schools in Denbighshire? OQ60325