Welsh Labour

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Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

1,787 speeches and questions

14 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with the housing sector
Just a very quick one to Catherine May, really. It's about building houses of the future, and if we build the right houses with the right layout—all houses, that is—in the future, and I know there's legislation around it, at least we're not storing up the…
14 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with the housing sector
Sorry, I was going to let you finish.
14 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with third sector organisations
Can I just ask: do you think that discharging patients at night is okay in some cases, or should it be stopped altogether?
14 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with third sector organisations
I'm going to ask, very quickly because we are running out of time and we want to get the critical points in, about specific issues around discharge that you've mentioned, so I can bring them out to the fore. One of them was rushing things so that, instead of…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you, Chair. I just want to ask a question about moving forward and where we are now with announcements that are being made. We heard the announcement yesterday that in England everything's going to go—so, you don't have to test, you can infect as many…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. I'm just going to leave something on the table as well. With hotter summers, we might have to have summer plans, because intense heat affects people quite seriously. But I'll leave that one on the table. What I am going to ask, of course, is: in…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Yes, okay. It's a wider question, but maybe we—
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
And if I can, just one final question from me. There was a case brought to my attention, and it's about the support for the family when they have diagnosis, especially if they've got young children, and in this case they did have young children—children old…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
I'm sure we'll all look forward to that, because once you lose your sight, you don't regain it, and time is, in this view particularly, of the essence, as it is in my next area, which is cancer care. I know you've answered some, so I'm not going to rehearse…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. I'm going to optometry now. During the Senedd's scrutiny of the First Minister committee meeting in December 2021, the First Minister said that the Welsh Government is considering bringing forward an optometry Bill during this Senedd term to change…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
I met with a community pharmacist last week, and I know that they've got a new contract, from April, and their prescribing will go from 28 days to 56 days. So, in light of what we've just been discussing, prescribing opiates, can we be sure that in that…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
I thank you very much for that answer. I'm moving on to orthopaedics now. One patient with lived experience who responded to the public consultation told you that her husband's pain medication had been doubled since waiting for orthopaedic surgery. So, how…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
And just a final one, again on autism. You may be, or may not be, aware that having a diagnosis for a female with autism is very often seven years behind having a diagnosis for a male. I don't know whether you're aware of that—it's not on the paper in front…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
You talked about the review of demand and capacity in neurodevelopmental services. When can we expect to see the outcome of that review as a committee?
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. I want to move on now to neurodevelopmental services, and particularly your response to the concerns of the National Autistic Society, saying that experiencing long delays in accessing NHS care and treatment is pushing some autistic people and…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
I want to move on now to dementia care. Again, we welcome the additional £3 million allocated to regional partnership boards to spend in that area. But I just want to understand how you will ensure that money will be spent on increasing access to memory…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Well, we've had evidence from the Royal College of Psychiatrists and they say to us that data is not routinely published on waiting times for psychological therapies, and they very often have to resort to freedom of information requests to get hold of that…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Right, I am unmuted. Anyway, good afternoon, everybody. I'm going to ask a number of questions in different areas, and I'm going to start with mental health demand. Of course, the Welsh Government has increased significantly the funding for mental health…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with Care Forum Wales
Okay. That's fine.
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with Care Forum Wales
Good morning, all. I want to talk about solutions, but I think we need to separate things out. You talk about a pathway for people—that's good. But most of the people that you're seeing who reside in care homes permanently are very elderly with multiple…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with local authorities
It's fine.
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with local authorities
Okay, but what needs to change? What is it? You've described the picture, and there are pressures everywhere. What needs to change, going forward, so that we give a better, more holistic, rounded service to individuals?
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with local authorities
Okay. Well, I'm going to move on, I'm afraid, to the hospital front door, because I'm going to talk about assessments, and I'm going to ask about the delays in patients waiting for assessment in hospital before discharge, because we all know that, in those…
10 February 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with local authorities
Thank you, and thank you, all, this morning. I'd just like to pick up where Nicola left off, on the microenterprises and the circular economy that Lee Waters has talked about, and also progressing and promoting co-operatives in terms of delivering care in the…
9 February 2022Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
As you know, Minister, thousands of women in Wales work shifts and that often entails unsociable hours, where they're expected either to start or finish work late at night. Understandably, many workers, particularly women, have expressed concern about their…