, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 6
So, the individual in the health board is the champion for ensuring that facilities are accessible—in the broadest sense, not just physically accessible—but also for laying on sessions for people who are never going to be at the Paralympics but just want to…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 6
Okay, so we'll look forward to hearing about the impact there. I just want to turn now to people with disabilities and how we enable them to have sport. And starting with people with physical disabilities, it should be, in most cases, rather obvious to…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 6
I'll come back to facilities in a moment. I just wanted to follow up very briefly with Jessica. You said you were having some useful conversations around the child and children and families work stream. At the moment, it's still a conversation going on with…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 6
Yes, go ahead.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 6
I’m sure that those who are making a success of sport are given lots of important advice about food and drink, but what conversations do you have with all of the grass-roots sports organisations that are represented through you? How do we counter when a…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 6
I'd like to come on to them now, actually. What impact is it having on the ground?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 6
Thank you. It was good to hear Jessica speak enthusiastically about 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales'. I just wonder if you could tell us how it has changed the relationship that you have with other weight management services, because it’s quite a holistic…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Write to us about it.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
I just wanted to know what possible benefit they can have unless people are being supported to change their diet. It just seems to me—[Inaudible.]—to just increase profits.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
That's what they're all about, isn't it?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
But surely the services have got to change to better meet people's needs.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Thank you.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Sure. So, just looking at the system, we’ve got this programme called, ‘Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales’. What impact is it having on giving higher priority to something that is now the biggest killer and cause of early death? It’s the biggest driver. So, this…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
But do they then think, ‘How can we realistically do this, given that they’ve got x number of families to get around? There’s far too many people who say, ‘I never saw the health visitor from the minute I left the hospital.’
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
You train them.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
—of getting communities to think differently about what’s best for baby. So, are you aware of any of these weight management services, in the three or four that have got them, that have got multidisciplinary teams? So, they don’t all need to be fully…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Okay. So, focusing on prudent healthcare, which I assume you’re familiar with, how do we get primary—? In those health boards where there are weight management services, how do we sort of turn the line around to get more prudent healthcare, whereby we’ve got…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Well, they'd have multidisciplinary teams. They don't all need to be super-qualified midwives.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
—that is constantly telling us we should eat some rubbish that is of no nutritional value at all.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Okay, because the biggest challenge we're up against is the multimillion pound food industry—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
The Healthy Start vouchers, I beg your pardon. But until the former Deputy Minister for health had a serious campaign about this, the uptake was atrocious; I think it was 45 per cent, and it's now about 78 per cent, I believe. So, if we don’t start from…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Well, we've got the healthy food vouchers.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
In terms of establishing healthy eating?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Thank you. I represent an area of Cardiff with multiple super-output areas of deprivation. There's a public health emergency going on across the country, involving all classes, but I appreciate that the problems are even more extreme amongst people who are…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
So, now, under Standing Order 17.42, I wonder if we can agree to go into private session.
