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Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
Helen, do you want to comment?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
Thank you, Chair. I'll be as rapid as I possibly can be. Capacity amongst clinical staff in using digital systems, when you consider that most clinical staff work shifts, it's pretty full-on work in terms of helping patients, et cetera, so what's the actual…
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Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
But what modern systems are there available?
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Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to go back to the fax machines briefly, if I may. [Laughter.] I worked in the NHS for 11 years and I think I know why we still use them—it's because it's deemed to be a secure method of communication, and in the profession…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Could I ask for an urgent statement from the health Minister this afternoon on waiting times in Glan Clwyd hospital in Bodelwyddan, as I have been contacted overnight by Chelsea Clark from Meliden, whose grandmother has been sat in A&E for 35 hours—35 hours…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you. So that we can dispel the myth that the council can't be bothered to cut the lawn and give my constituents assurances that next summer will be more effective than this one.
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that response, First Minister, and the reason I ask the question this afternoon is that I've been contacted by many residents from the Nant Close area of Rhuddlan, and from the coastal areas of Rhyl and Prestatyn over the summer, who are very…
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Questions to the First Minister
4. What assessment has the Minister made of the impact of wildflower meadows on wildlife in Denbighshire? OQ58599
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Dentistry - evidence session with Cardiff University and Public Health Wales
Thank you.
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Dentistry - evidence session with Cardiff University and Public Health Wales
Thank you, Chair. I want to talk about funding, and I'm not going to ask whether there's sufficient funding for improving access to dental services because, on the basis of the evidence that we've taken as a committee on dentistry already, it suggests that…
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Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
No, I'm done, Chair.
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Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Absolutely, yes. Thank you very much.
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Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
But do staff feel like they have the access to that latest technology within the health service? What I'm trying to ask really is: is the NHS keeping up with modern ways of practicing? Is that something that's provided, or not?
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Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
And do NHS dentists have the same access to technology? Because you talk about paperwork; is it actually physical paperwork, or is it e-based, or—?
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Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
And given the issues that you've spoken about, what's morale like then, generally, amongst dentists? I can't imagine, from what you've described, that it's in the higher echeleons at the moment, but—
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Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
What sort of training do you think would promote that in terms of upskilling people for providing a skill mix for professionals?
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Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
And Vicki, what about the community dental service, then in terms of recruitment?
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Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
And what do you think health boards can do better, then, to attract dentists into health boards, given those problems?
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Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Thank you, Chair. I want to ask about workforce and recruitment issues. Is there clear data on the amount of dental practitioners in each individual health board, and whether numbers are sufficient to need? I suspect that's probably not the case, but could…
, Plenary
Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Report: Care Home Commissioning
I'd like to thank the Chair of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee, Mark Isherwood, members of the committee and staff for conducting an inquiry into care home commissioning in response to the publication of the commissioner's report back…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Enough is enough. Residents in Trefnant and Tremeirchion have had enough, Trefnydd. The bridge was destroyed during storm Christoph in 2021, and on Saturday residents of Trefnant and Tremeirchion protested at why the bridge is taking so long to be fixed. I…
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Dentistry - evidence session with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Age Cymru and Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Thank you very much.
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Dentistry - evidence session with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Age Cymru and Older People's Commissioner for Wales
All the wider things.
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Dentistry - evidence session with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Age Cymru and Older People's Commissioner for Wales
I can imagine, yes. David, any comments?
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Dentistry - evidence session with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Age Cymru and Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Okay. Just finally, to open up to all, how much of an impact will waiting times and capacity in community dental services have on older people, children and those people who can't get out? Because you've obviously mentioned the lack of data and also the…
