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Dentistry - evidence session with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Age Cymru and Older People's Commissioner for Wales
How are elderly people and people who can't get out of the house referred on to the community dental service, then? Is that from a dentist or another health professional that refers them on to that? How do they get into that system, then?
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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, Chair, and good morning, everyone. I want to direct my questions around domiciliary dental care and the community dental service. What domiciliary care services are currently available out there, and is there sufficient provision to meet the demand…
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Thanks for that answer. Just to push a little bit more on that two-tier system in emergency cases. In a worst-case scenario, somebody's in a dire situation. They are in excruciating pain. Dentists are full to capacity. Are there contingency plans in place for…
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
I appreciate that. Just finally, how much is known about the number of patients paying for private orthodontic treatment? Does this cause a two-tier system, in effect, then?
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
What's the difference in pay, then, between an NHS dentist and private, roughly?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Thank you, Chair. Good morning, everyone. You've answered a lot in your answers already, but can I just push a little bit more on private provision and the reasons why NHS dentists are going to private? Like I say, you have answered those questions, but are…
, Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
Thank you for that. It's not just carers I was talking about, it's social care staff pay, which are completely different things. And I do understand the complexities in social care compared to healthcare, because 99.9 per cent of healthcare services fall…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
Will the Minister 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
It's a pleasure to take part in this debate this afternoon, and of course as a member of the Health and Social Care Committee, I've seen first-hand evidence from witnesses who are placed in the best position to commentate on the current state of hospital…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you, Llywydd. It's not yours, it's not mine, or anyone's business other than the parents. They should be deciding what sort of education their child receives and whether they want to engage with sex education, and not you, Minister. How on earth do you…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I'm afraid to say that this Welsh Labour Government's deliverance of social policy on children and young people in Wales is a classic case of the Government pandering to the woke warriors of this world, unfortunately. [Interruption.] And where you may not…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: 'Together for Mental Health' Strategy and Next Steps
Thank you very much for your statement this afternoon, Deputy Minister. However, it is disappointing that this is not an annual report. While the willingness and enthusiasm is there from the Deputy Minister to improve mental health services, the Senedd needs…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Sport in North Wales: Ensuring opportunity for all
I’d like to start by declaring an interest as a full member of Rhyl and District Rugby Football Club. I’d like to thank my colleague Sam Rowlands for tabling and discussing this important subject today. It’s quite right that we should be doing all we can to…
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90-second Statements
Diolch, Deputy Llywydd. The annual Denbigh Plum Feast, which takes place on the first Saturday of October, was held last weekend to coincide with the plum's ripeness at this time of year. The Denbigh plum is the only native plum in Wales, dating back to the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Gynaecological cancer
Yes, these are Wales-only figures, because I'm just going to mention now that, in Merthyr Tydfil, less than two thirds of women took their screening test, which I think is shocking but not surprising, to say the least, when many women have said that the main…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Gynaecological cancer
It's a pleasure to take part in this debate this afternoon on what is such an important topic in the lives of many women in Wales. And while it may raise eyebrows that a bloke is talking about women's health, I believe it's important that we all work together…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you for that answer, Minister. Where there is direction for bus services in Denbighshire, there is a lack of guidance for taxi services, which, as you know, are licensed by local authorities and provide regulatory frameworks for companies to adhere to…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
6. How will the establishment of corporate joint committees improve public transport in Denbighshire? OQ58429
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: Evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing and the Deputy Minister for Social Services
Thank you.
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Mental health inequalities: Evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing and the Deputy Minister for Social Services
Thanks for that. And just finally, in terms of digital technology, are the right systems there in place to support those aspirations—so, obviously, services change, contact numbers and websites and everything—so that it's almost a live directory in a sense?…
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Mental health inequalities: Evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing and the Deputy Minister for Social Services
So, if there's no—. If they don't want standardised guidance from the Welsh Government, does that mean there will be regional variations to that or would that be local-authority led or would that—? What would the set-up be in that circumstance then?
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Mental health inequalities: Evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing and the Deputy Minister for Social Services
Okay. I appreciate that answer. And one of the issues with social prescribing, or social prescribers, I should say—and they can often be referred to as link workers or community connectors—is that they're often unregulated, It's an unregulated workforce with…
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Mental health inequalities: Evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing and the Deputy Minister for Social Services
Thank you very much, Chair, and good morning. I'd like to cover social prescribing, if I may. We're aware that you're currently consulting on a national framework for social prescribing, so can you update the committee this morning at all and give a progress…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Early Years Provision—Expansion of Flying Start
I thank you for your statement this afternoon, Deputy Minister, despite you announcing your plan to the media 48 hours before discussing the proposals on the floor of this Senedd, to where you're elected. But it was good to see you in north Wales on Friday…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that answer, Trefnydd. The reason I ask this question today is for the reason that we now have winter on the horizon, together with a cost-of-living crisis, and our social care workers are amongst some of the lowest-paid workers in the labour…
