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Debate: Draft Budget 2022-23
It's a pleasure to take part in such an important debate. It's what's widely considered as one of the highlights of the Welsh political calendar. Four weeks ago, I was highly critical of the impact this budget would have on our health and care services…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Long COVID
I thank you for your statement this afternoon, Minister. I think we've yet to fully comprehend the long-term impact that a COVID infection has on some people. What we do know is that, sadly, far too many people have been left debilitated long after the virus…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. Three weeks ago, the UK's COVID-19 infection prevention and control cell issued new guidance on the use of respiratory protective equipment for front-line healthcare staff. This led to the UK Government taking the decision to…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Adverse childhood experiences
Do you think it's appropriate to over-politicise this, given the nature of what we're talking about?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Adverse childhood experiences
Thank you, Joyce Watson, for taking the intervention. Do you think it's appropriate to over-politicise this debate? We're discussing a very sensitive and important subject and a lot of the contributions today have been on the message of working together. Jack…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Adverse childhood experiences
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Deputy Llywydd, and I'm honoured to formally move the motion, tabled in the name of Darren Millar, and to open this debate on such an important but difficult topic. Like many of us here in this Chamber, I pledged my support for the WAVE…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
I appreciate that answer, Minister. The impact that pesticides are having upon our pollinators is a very real concern for many of my constituents. Fruit farming plays a big role for many in the Vale of Clwyd, including the Denbigh plum, which I often mention…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
1. What discussions has the Minister had with the Minister for Climate Change on the impact of pesticides on bee health? OQ57566
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Launch of the new Health and Social Care Regional Integration Fund
Thank you for your statement this afternoon, Minister; it's good to see you in person after several weeks of more Zoom meetings than you can count. Integrating care should be about the outcomes, so why are we integrating care if not to provide top-quality…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd, and it's great to be back in the Chamber. First Minister, unfortunately, the support services available in Wales continue to be woefully inadequate and we are letting our victims down. And whereas we are getting better, we still have a fair…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Yes. Yes.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Yes. Yes. Just finally, I just wanted to pick up on part of your evidence note, which talks about the differences in Wales and England in the discharge to recover and assess models. I just wonder if you could tell us a bit more about that, and just expand a…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
I appreciate that, and I do appreciate the complexities around it. It's a funny building, isn't it, Wrexham Maelor? You can walk probably up to about a mile without going outdoors, which is quite unique.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Thanks. So, my next question is to Gill, regarding Betsi. The Wrexham Maelor Hospital is regularly in the news about long A&E waiting times, and, as a Member for the Vale of Clwyd, I'm acutely aware of the issues at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, and Rhun will probably…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
I read also that you're working with the local authority to block-book care home beds. Could you possibly expand on this? Do you see that as a step to addressing some of the problems that I mentioned in the first question?
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
I appreciate that, thank you very much. The next question is to Dr Gibson specifically. Your evidence states, and I'm quoting from the evidence, that despite various schemes, including short-term funding designed to support discharge, discharge rates have…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Okay. So, being a glass-half-full sort of person, can you tell us briefly about any successful schemes that you've been involved in around improving hospital discharges, patient flow, and using them as an example to influence other areas? Rhun was talking…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Thank you, Chair, and good afternoon, everybody. I just want to kick off, really, and I suppose I can throw out this question for any takers: how well do you think that the discharge to assess and the recovery models are being implemented in Wales? And the…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
Yes. I don't know whether Dai or Calum might be able to expand on that from an OT or physio perspective, just to broaden the conversation.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
Yes. Thanks, Chair. I suppose my last question is a bit of a niche one to Pippa around neurorehab. In my time in the NHS, I did quite a lot of training around this specifically, and have probably got an educated guess as to why that's such a significant cause…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
Thanks for that. I just want to explore, really, the communication between the professions and whether you see that as a barrier to delays. Because in my experience of working in the NHS—. I worked in physiotherapy until about 12 months ago, and in my…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
Thanks, Chair, and good morning, everybody. You actually addressed a lot of my questions in your answers to the initial questions, but I just want to use my time really to just perhaps address a little bit further some of the points that you've made. You've…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Thank you for that. Just to wrap it up and considering everything that we've discussed this morning, quite wide-ranging issues that span quite a few sectors and professions and things, considering all that, what would be the one key message that you'd like to…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Thank you, Chair. I enjoyed the little piece there about the fax machine earlier, and the VCR. I thought it was like a bit of a throwback to the 1980s and 1990s, wasn't it? [Laughter.] When I did work in the NHS, it was deemed to be a safe method of…
