, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Free ports
In a minute. But at a time when the national debt is £2.5 trillion—digest that one—thanks to years of Tory mismanagement, free ports still deprive central Government of vital income via a wide range of customs privileges and tax breaks.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Free ports
The latest estimate suggests that the UK economy is already around 4 per cent smaller as a result of leaving the EU. It's been explained to me how the UK model for free ports offer robust protections—we've heard those before—against the criminality and the…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Free ports
Yes, well, there we are. That was that version; this is going to be this version. The point here is quite clearly that I am extremely sceptical of free ports. I don't uphold this idea of free trade in the way that you're describing, and I would ask people to…
, Plenary
& 6. The general principles of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill
I welcome the opportunity to take part in this debate. It is one of the most important pieces of legislation, I think, that this Senedd will scrutinise. It not only shapes the future of Welsh farming, but our natural heritage, economy and culture, and…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the National Endoscopy Programme and Wales Cancer Network
Thank you, that's useful.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the National Endoscopy Programme and Wales Cancer Network
One of the areas that we haven't discussed, but was mentioned earlier today, was the community diagnostic hubs. Would that help you to deliver your services on a wider basis, beyond, as you've quite rightly pointed out, cancer—the other important aspects?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the National Endoscopy Programme and Wales Cancer Network
And is that because they want to keep it in primary care but they don't trust the system? Or could I rephrase that?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the National Endoscopy Programme and Wales Cancer Network
We've had, and you've mentioned it very briefly, some reports about the variations, but also about using FIT in primary care for symptoms, especially the low-risk patients. We hear also that Hywel Dda health board are on track to have that in place by March…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the National Endoscopy Programme and Wales Cancer Network
Good afternoon. You talked earlier on about health boards having their own individual systems for employing people. I want to ask about the health boards agreeing a standardised referral pathway to endoscopy. Is that happening?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Exactly, yes. And of course—can I, Chair? The other side is to reassure the public too, because we all know how attached they become to doctors, and there's a disparity in their thinking. So, there are two sides.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with Public Health Wales
I'm trying to understand how widely the opportunities for nurses to progress are known at the point of entry, because we all know we're facing huge challenges asking people to enter the nursing profession at the moment. Have you considered the benefits of…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with Public Health Wales
So, if we had enough people to deal with it, you'd lower it sooner.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Can I ask—because there's been quite strong recommendations on that lowering of the threshold—why it's taking that amount of time? There must be a reason.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with Public Health Wales
The sensitivity.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Did I hear you say—because it was going to be the next question—that you're reducing the FIT-positive threshold, and when are you expecting that to happen, because that's a clear recommendation that's been made to us?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Good morning, both. I want to talk about the optimisation of the bowel screening programme. We've talked numbers already, but there's another number, isn't there, and that is that we're going to meet the target in Wales by September 2025, as recommended by…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with cancer organisations
That's fine. Thank you.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with cancer organisations
Okay.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with cancer organisations
I want to ask: the national endoscopy programme focuses on gastrointestinal endoscopy, but there are other types of endoscopy that are used in the diagnosis of different cancers. One of them is cervical cancer, another is bladder, and I'm sure there are…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with cancer organisations
I do. There are challenges within the referral pathways, and this is part of that. Is there anything that you haven't said that you feel you want to say about referral pathways now, so that we can better serve people?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with cancer organisations
We all understand—and you've reiterated it many times this morning—that early diagnosis is key. Underpinning that, of course, is how you test, how you diagnose. We've had this representation by Bowel Cancer UK that the existing FIT—. What I've read underneath…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
The scope of the strategy was extended to include workplace harassment, because, as it says, women's safety can only come from change in a culture that fails to tackle toxic masculinity. Unfortunately, we've seen numerous examples of that culture in various…
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Papers to note
Yes.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Scrutiny of the Chief Nursing Office for Wales
Yes, there is one we missed out. We were talking about training the workforce—and if you haven't got time now, just send it to us—but the need to train individuals, or for individuals to be trained bilingually.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Scrutiny of the Chief Nursing Office for Wales
It does, and the other thing—because we took evidence from students, we went out and they were talking about, some of them, either suspending or completely leaving their training places. So, again, it's a retention issue, isn't it, about students? What work…
