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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations that represent disabled people and carers
Is that echoed?
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations that represent disabled people and carers
Thank you. Thank you, Kat. And finally, we're talking about what's on the face of the Bill and we're talking about the rights and we particularly want to get your views on whether the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities should be on the…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations that represent disabled people and carers
Thank you. We've talked about what's in the Bill. Do you want to add anything that you think should be in the Bill that isn't in the Bill or even have a greater focus within the Bill?
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations that represent disabled people and carers
Does anybody else have any opinions on this, any research? No. We're looking at—and you've mentioned some—the unintended consequences of it, and they've been expressed well this morning. But, apart from the ones you've already mentioned, are there any others…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations that represent disabled people and carers
Okay, I just wanted to—. Because it has been mentioned so often, the obvious question was: is it working anywhere? And you haven't come across it, so—. We've had—. So, I'm moving on now to demand and supply, really. We've had evidence that's been given to us…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations that represent disabled people and carers
Just keeping on pooled budgets, have you come across any examples of best practice anywhere, where that is operating?
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with disabled people on proposals to introduce direct payments for Continuing NHS Healthcare
No.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with disabled people on proposals to introduce direct payments for Continuing NHS Healthcare
Hi, Shahd. I just want to ask what you think will be the main advantages and disadvantages of moving, if you're not already on direct payments.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with disabled people on proposals to introduce direct payments for Continuing NHS Healthcare
Yes. Good morning and thank you for joining us today. We really want to hear from you. So, we have the plans to extend direct payments to allow them to be used for healthcare, and you've talked about that. What do you think would be the main advantages for…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Diolch, Cabinet Secretary. I was really pleased to hear that the attainment champion pilot is to be extended into a second phase this September, and the pilot, which was designed to help tackle the impact of poverty on pupils' educational attainment and to…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
5. What is the Welsh Government doing to improve educational attainment? OQ61237
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
I thank you for that answer. I was particularly pleased to see the Transforming Towns grant being used to renovate two important historic market halls in my constituency of Mid and West Wales. Work with funds from this Welsh Government grant and European…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
1. What is the Welsh Government doing to support town centres in Mid and West Wales? OQ61236
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport: D-day and Armed Forces Week
Diolch, Llywydd. I want to thank you for your statement today, and I want to join Ministers and colleagues here today, and outside, in paying tribute to those who risked their lives, and those who, sadly, gave their lives, for our futures, and recognise the…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: A sustainable Welsh marine environment
Diolch, Cabinet Secretary, for your statement. Over half the area of Wales is made up of the marine environment and is home to a huge variety of habitats and marine life. We are lucky enough to have important colonies of sea birds, like the puffins that have…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Six Goals for Urgent and Emergency Care Two Years On
I am going to. If you ask anybody that's been there, they will tell you they have good service. So, going forward, and, again, looking at progress along the plan, when can we expect to see the next statement from you that shows, I suspect, even further…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Six Goals for Urgent and Emergency Care Two Years On
Thank you for your statement today, Cabinet Secretary. I think the most important thing about the six-point plan is that people get the right care, at the right time, and in the right place. Opening up 16 urgent primary care centres across Wales is a really…
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General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
I think, Chair, we haven't got time to explore this in depth today. It's something that we might think of coming back to. There are many factors that influence gambling as seemingly harmless, and one of them at the moment—and I'm a huge football fan, as you…
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General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
I thank you for that, but, of course, one of the areas, according to the chief medical officer and Public Health Wales, is a need to reduce the harm from gambling. So, what scope do you think there is for Wales to develop a system-wide approach?
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General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
I'm going to move on now—good afternoon, I think it is now, Minister—to substance misuse, addiction and gambling. There are widespread reports about the rate of drug-poisoning deaths, which are continuing to increase, particularly when it comes to cocaine…
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General scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Care
It is. If you can just send me an update on the work that is coming together to protect young carers. You know, it's multifaceted, so it'd take too many questions and too much time, but if we could have that, please.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
My final question is about people's capacity to choose whether they want to go to this system or carry on in the system that they're already in. We are also fully aware that there's an awful lot of control around where money resides, and coercive control is…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
The other area, of course, is people being charged, according to the older people's commissioner, top-up fees to access essential services that will be paid by the CHC direct payments. I'm sure you've taken that on board. And she gives examples here, perhaps…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
And are you going to help people with that transition? Because a change when you're vulnerable, regardless of age, is a significant challenge to the individual, both mentally and the fear that you've just described. So, how are you going to help with the…
