, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Changing Places Toilets
Diolch. Well, key to the delivery of the Equality Act 2010 is the availability of Changing Places toilets, which go beyond the provision of standard accessible toilets and are designed so that everyone, regardless of their access needs or impairments or…
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'Digital connectivity—broadband'
Are you unaware that the Welsh Government agreed from the outset in 2011 that they would decide how to use and match fund the UK Government funding they received, by agreement, to roll out superfast broadband across Wales?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Okay. Well, Members, I propose in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix) that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of today's meeting. Are Members content? I see that Members are content, and would be grateful if we could move into…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
I think another committee, the health one, is giving consideration to that, so it wasn't one of our priorities, given the work programme we already have on the board.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
If you wish to comment—.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Yes. I've got mine tonight, so—. Well, thanks for being with us.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
—not remotely, but in person. So, you have set a new record. A transcript of today's meeting will be published in draft form. It will be circulated to you for you to check for accuracy before being published in the final version. So, I hope your home journey…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Okay. Well, thank you very much. Members, do you have any further questions? No. Well, we've run 20 minutes over, but thanks for staying with us, and thanks for being with us—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Thank you. And my very final question, then: what, if any, role, given everything you've said, do you believe that the Welsh Government itself, the Permanent Secretary, the director of propriety and ethics in the Permanent Secretary's group, and the director…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Okay. Well, that brings us to our last couple of questions around a matter you've already touched on, which is senior leadership and succession planning. As you indicated, there have been significant management and senior management turnover. The previous…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Don't worry, Mike's raised a few points around finance, but you'd indicated earlier you might want to raise questions on this matter.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Well, it's not them; it's their board. This is the patients' watchdog.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Thank you. I think, Natasha, you might have had some finance questions as well.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
By all means, yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Thank you. We'll have to move on, because we're already over time, but I would just comment, outside mental health, my own family has had very positive experiences of audiology and oncology, so it's not all negative. It's where—. We focus on the glaring…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Well, I was going to save that until later. How do you respond to a comment in an e-mail I received from an informed person this week that we're asking the same people responsible for the problem to now be the solution?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Well, I think we've captured your comment earlier about concern that your successor body, the citizens voice, at this stage doesn't have powers to make unannounced visits—clearly, that's a critical point. We know that last year's HIW reports indicated that…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
It was many years before that they asked to meet me. Anyhow, to move on to mental health services, you made some reference earlier to Tawel Fan, and it's almost a decade since the incidents in Tawel Fan—it's actually 13 years since constituents and staff…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
I think the concern was that the only reason they have that capacity was because, previously, it was filled from north Wales.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
In terms of Countess, it was years before the incident you referred to, when they asked to meet me, and when I've conferred with them since, they've said they've had to redesign their business model now, so they've got more work contracts with referral bodies…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
An example I gave was a Clatterbridge patient from north Wales, who has been going to Clatterbridge for years, who's now been told she's got to come to north Wales. This week.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
My daughter has one.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
In that context, you've referred a lot there to cross-border interdependency, and you quite rightly used the words 'health economy'. In that region, it's always been historically across border, for the reasons you describe. But there are tensions and we…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
There was a 2009 north Wales review. They called it the neurosciences review, but it covered neurological conditions, which followed the Steers report. That had followed outcry in north Wales when it was proposed that elective neurosurgery should be…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Neurology, sorry. Well, neurological conditions.
