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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Delivering on our priorities: Reducing waiting times and strengthening primary care
Llywydd, the transformational change that we want and need to see depends on a strong and resilient workforce with resources in the right places. Staff working across health and care are the most valuable asset that we have. They work with dedication each day…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Delivering on our priorities: Reducing waiting times and strengthening primary care
Cutting waiting times, treating those who have waited the longest and putting the system on a sustainable footing for the future is my immediate priority. I have been absolutely clear that short-term action alone will not deliver the lasting improvement to…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Delivering on our priorities: Reducing waiting times and strengthening primary care
Thank you very much, Llywydd. When I made my first statement in this Siambr a couple of weeks ago, I noted clearly that we needed bold, radical action to create a strong, resilient and thriving health and care system. In a number of areas, we know that we are…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
Those are vitally important points that, in part, answer the question put forward by the leader of the Conservatives. Primary care is where over 90 per cent of patient contact with the health system happens, and yet the prolonged neglect of this vital pillar…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
Llywydd, the Member suggests that I said there's too much focus on hospitals and that I would like to see hospital beds reduced. I haven't said that at all. In fact, if the Member had read our manifesto, he would have seen differently—that we need to…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
Thank you for the points raised. If I can go straight to the point around mental health and women's health, that's why the First Minister has appointed a Deputy Minister with those points exactly in her title. She will be looking with a laser-like focus on…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
I thank the Member for that. The point that she raises is particularly important. As I said, I was part of the report of the health and care committee that looked into ophthalmology, and I'm aware of the deficiencies that we have in that regard. That's why…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
I thank the Member for his question, and I'd like to thank him for his previous work within the NHS. I'm very proud to have him as a member of the group so that he can advise us on many health-related issues. The Member is right to highlight the particular…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
Yes, thank you to the Member for the points that she has raised, and she's absolutely right that social care is crucial. If we are going to resolve the issues facing our health service, we need to resolve the issues facing social care, but the issues facing…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
Thank you to the Member for those points raised. The Member started by accusing Plaid Cymru of being, what she said, 'equally culpable', in the demise of the health service. Now, this is our first time leading Government, may I just remind you, but your party…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
Thank you to the Member for those points that he raised. Now, the Member referenced waiting lists. His previous Government didn't have the proudest record in tackling the waiting lists, and that's why we are having to take radical action in making sure that…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
Thank you, James, for those comments. I'd like to thank the opposition Member for raising some of the issues that he has. The Member was quite right in stating that we need to ensure that we thank the NHS and care staff in Wales—absolutely. They are working…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
Llywydd, the health and well-being of our population and the future of the NHS depend on preventing avoidable ill health and delivering care earlier, in the right place at the right time. I will bring together system leaders, local authorities and clinicians…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
We will do this by implementing an ambitious national programme to expand surgical and diagnostic hubs across Wales to reduce waiting times, improve access and increase capacity. My officials are already in the process of convening the expert independent…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
Thank you very much, Llywydd. I'm proud to speak in this Chamber for the first time as Cabinet Minister for Health and Care and to represent a sector that in so many ways reflects our very best qualities as a society and as a nation. But I'm under no…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
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Short Debate: Violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—The scourge of Wales today
The pledge that this Government has made many times, to build a safe country, sounds very empty when one hears evidence like this. The latest figures are terrifying, and, as the brave girl whom I quoted said, these figures are not numbers, but people. The…
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Short Debate: Violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—The scourge of Wales today
'I was seven years old when a man entered my life, a man who would become my stepfather. It had only been a year until I began to notice the punch marks on the doors. By the age of nine, I witnessed the first act of violence, a scene that would become all too…
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Short Debate: Violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—The scourge of Wales today
Thank you very much, Llywydd. I have given, or have offered, at least, a minute of my time to Joyce Watson and Sioned Williams, and I thank them for taking an interest in this debate today. A home is supposed to be a happy place—a household full of the sound…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days
I'm chuffed for the people that you represent that you've got new trains, but, in my area, we've seen trains being cut, and we've seen bus journeys cut. That's the record of the first 100 days; that's the record of this Labour Government. Is that something…
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Topical Questions
I welcome the fact that the Government has belatedly recognised the need for a fresh approach to the long-standing problem of delayed hospital discharges, but I do worry that the substance of the plan leaves a lot to be desired. Firstly, it’s clear that it…
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Topical Questions
1. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement regarding the new 50 day challenge to health boards to address delays in hospital discharges? TQ1244
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Business Statement and Announcement
May I ask for two statements, please, with the first from the Deputy First Minister on the findings of the publication by NRW, 'Case for Change'? You will be aware that NRW, last week, announced that they will close visitor centre operations at Coed y Brenin…
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Topical Questions
I'd like to thank Sioned for asking this important question, because this evidence highlights two of the most fundamental problems that we have within the health service. And it's no surprise to many of those working in health and care sectors in hearing this…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
We last had an update from the Welsh Government on escalation arrangements back in January, and though we've witnessed substantial churn across the Labour benches in the intervening months, including three different Cabinet Secretaries holding the health and…
