, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
That's how important this provision is and the services that they provide. But this increase in national insurance contributions is going to cost this one charity around £250,000, if not more, every year. So, it threatens the services not just that they…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
'Sadly, a third of those we support are end-of-life, facing their most difficult days.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
—as they say in their letter.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
'At Tenovus Cancer Care, we deliver essential services for people affected by cancer including counselling, nurse-led support, and benefits advice. This is provided free of charge, exclusively to the NHS'—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Thank you very much. Just to emphasise that the evidence that we have received, and that we receive as individuals from the care sector, shows that this respite element is the element that contributes greatest to their quality of life. So, it's important to…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Thank you very much. So, just to understand fully, because we see the MEG headlines, we see the expenditure, but we don't see the granular detail, what you're saying now is that we can expect to see a budget for those programmes extend above inflation.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
I appreciate that context. I know that time is tight this morning. So, what is the future of those schemes in the context of the next financial year?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Forgive me, Minister—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Thank you very much, Chair. I want to focus a little, if I may, in this section on pressures on the independent and third sector providers—the financial pressures on them. Looking initially at unpaid carers, your evidence has shown that there are two…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
No, no, but do you think it should be?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Do you think local government should be restructured?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Just very briefly, on that point, do you therefore feel that it's about focusing on local government, that that's the way forward, and do you have plans to do that? [Translation should read: Just very briefly, to come in on that, do you therefore think that…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Diolch.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
I'm going to ask my question through the medium of Welsh. On that point, Cabinet Secretary, you mentioned preventative programmes. Of course, there was criticism in the last financial year that the Government had cut the funding for the Government's…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
Yes, in Betsi Cadwaladr, we've got a lot of people attending north Wales, visiting north Wales, and if you talk to Llais, you'll see the statistics of the number coming and going into our hospitals because of those, amongst other factors as well. And the…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
Yes, go for it.
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
I agree with you but you can't put your head in the sand and deny that there's a problem. There are 700,000 people waiting for treatment; one in five of the population of Wales need to be seen to get their treatment. And you also referred to the Llandudno…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
It's been a really good debate with some really interesting examples of best practice. Now, we started off with James trying to take credit on behalf of the Conservatives for the policies that we put forward. But, you know, be honest. At least we're being…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
Just on that point, smoking being the biggest cause of death, do you therefore support the calls for ASH to be funded properly, so that they can continue with their good work?
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. Since the First Minister was appointed back in August, waiting lists in Wales have increased by nearly 2,000. That's an extra 12 pathways for every day that the First Minister has been in office. Furthermore, the waiting list…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Far below—far below the target. Now, as I mentioned in my first question, it is self-evident that timely collection and publication of data is essential to a well-functioning health service, particularly for the purposes of efficient workforce planning and…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
With respect, that’s a disappointing response, because you seem to be in complete denial about the problems within the health service. The suggestions that we have put forward in a series of reports are ones that have come up from clinicians, saying that…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. I'd like to develop a little bit on James Evans's questioning on the Audit Wales report into cancer services in Wales. The report makes a number of findings, as we've heard: a lack of clarity over the status of national…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Establishment of a school of dentistry in Bangor
That was Plaid Cymru's ambition back in 2001. But that was rejected year on year, with the Government of the day saying that there was no justification for a medical school in Bangor over a period of years. Today, however, the medical school is a reality, and…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Establishment of a school of dentistry in Bangor
'We have had only one medical school, although a second campus in Swansea is becoming a reality. Our policy is to have a campus in Bangor too. We don't produce enough doctors. Ireland, with the same population, has six medical schools, and Scotland has five'.
