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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS winter pressures
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I had originally planned to provide an update to the Senedd next week, as this was when the forecasts suggested that we would see a peak of both flu cases and winter pressures. But, this year, flu arrived early, with an increase in…
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Topical Questions
I don't know the circumstances of the individual residents, naturally, as the Member would not expect me to, and I don't know where the consultations are in relation to the particular care homes, but what I can tell the Member is that Rhondda Cynon Taf…
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Topical Questions
I thank Sam Rowlands for those questions. I think each of the 10 steps plays a different role, actually, in supporting the system overall. So, some are, if you like, hospital-based interventions. So, the integrated discharge service that the Minister for…
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Topical Questions
I thank the Member for those questions. Perhaps I might suggest that the point at which to assess the success of this initiative is after it's completed rather than before it starts. But, on the point that he puts specifically to me, this is an example of the…
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Topical Questions
The 50-day winter challenge identifies 10 best-practice initiatives to help people to stay well at home and leave hospital once clinical needs are met. It challenges both health and social care partners to target support on the 25 per cent of those patients…
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Short Debate: The future of local healthcare in rural Wales
Well, I wouldn't accept that characterisation. I will come on and touch on that in a moment. Health Education and Improvement Wales has developed a scheme to encourage dental trainees to work in rural dental practices, and the Welsh enhanced recruitment offer…
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Short Debate: The future of local healthcare in rural Wales
I will.
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Short Debate: The future of local healthcare in rural Wales
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and this is an important debate reflecting the importance of rural healthcare to communities all over Wales. And my vision, in response to the question that colleagues have asked, is that everyone should be able to access quality NHS…
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Debate on petition P-06-1400, 'Fair and Adequate Resourcing of General Practice in Wales'
—funding decisions, and we are committed to the principle of providing more care closer to home. Dirprwy Lywydd, I'm grateful to you for allowing me to speak a little beyond my time. I would like to say that I'm grateful for the relationship we have with the…
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Debate on petition P-06-1400, 'Fair and Adequate Resourcing of General Practice in Wales'
Dirprwy Lywydd, part of making general practice sustainable is about allowing GPs to care for their patients more efficiently and relieving some of the pressure and demand they're experiencing, by working more collaboratively with other primary care…
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Debate on petition P-06-1400, 'Fair and Adequate Resourcing of General Practice in Wales'
Thank you, acting Deputy Presiding Officer. GP provision provides crucial preventive services, and I'm very grateful to GPs and their staff for working so hard every day. For many people, as we've discussed during the debate, the surgery is their first and…
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Topical Questions
We seek to publish data on a regular basis in relation to the performance of the health service and care services in Wales, and that data is available for Members to scrutinise, as it ought to be. It is often used as a basis for how I am challenged…
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I have answered some of those questions in my answers to Sioned Williams. I hope that the Member will have found those answers helpful to his questions. Data and the role of digital development in the NHS is a priority for the Government, and it runs as a…
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Topical Questions
I think the Member will have heard the answer that I gave to Sioned Williams a moment ago. Whilst evidence is being given by the Welsh Government in the inquiry, I'm not sure it's particularly helpful for me to provide a commentary on that. Obviously, we're…
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Topical Questions
Well, in relation to the last point, I would, of course, remind the Member that the reason she is asking the question is because of the questioning of a Welsh official in relation to practice in Wales, the very kind of question that I’m sure she would…
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Topical Questions
I’d like to extend my sympathies and condolences to the families of the health and social care workers who tragically lost their lives during the pandemic. Data in relation to deaths as a result of COVID-19 infection are gathered from a number of sources. The…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
I thank the Member for that. I should say that the current forecast for the health board aligns with the minimum requirements in the accountability conditions around the funding of financial questions, and the board is making real progress against key…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
I thank the Member for those questions. I think they're all fair questions to ask. On the first point in relation to the accountability review, that will be published very, very imminently, so I can reassure him very categorically about that—in the coming…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
Well, I think it is important that health boards, in making the choices that often, inevitably, they have to make—and he's referring to one in his own constituency that I understand well, of course—do that in a way that commands public confidence and engages…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
I thank the Member for those questions, which were, I think, in substance, more or less the same questions that Sam Rowlands asked, so I hope you will have found the answers I gave to Sam Rowlands equally useful to the questions that you have asked. I…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
I thank the Member for those questions. Just to clarify matters of fact first, there aren't 800,000 people on waiting lists in Wales; it is far too high at a little over 600,000, but just for the sake of accuracy, for the record, that is the situation. The…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
Dirprwy Lywydd, I turn now to Swansea Bay university and Powys teaching health boards, where we need to increase the level of support because of the growing financial deficits both organisations are reporting. Therefore, I have taken the decision to escalate…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
Like the NHS in other parts of the UK, the health service in Wales is under intense pressure. Demand for services is at an all-time high, and the NHS in Wales, as elsewhere, is continuing to manage the impact of the pandemic, both in terms of the backlog of…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
Thank you, temporary Dirprwy Lywydd.
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Assisted dying
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'd like to begin by thanking Julie Morgan for tabling this important debate today and, if I may, everybody who has contributed. It's almost a decade since we last discussed assisted dying in the Senedd. It is a topic that is as…
