4 May 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Centre for Mental Health and Society at Bangor University, Platfform and Psychologists for Social Change
Just one very simple one: how do we compare in prescribing with countries like in Scandinavia?
4 May 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Centre for Mental Health and Society at Bangor University, Platfform and Psychologists for Social Change
Diolch, Cadeirydd. We have heard a strong link between antidepressant prescribing and poverty. We've heard that GPs feel they've got nothing else to offer people to manage their despair. But is it any surprise that people who are struggling to feed their…
3 May 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I would like to ask for two Government statements. Firstly, many of my constituents were seriously concerned regarding a remark made by Jacob Rees-Mogg about the future of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Swansea. I want to stress the importance of…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 2
Thank you.
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 2
I've been very impressed by Musical Memories, which has been used both in homes but also in community centres, which really does have a tremendous effect and beneficial effect on elderly people. Although, I was very disappointed to discover that ABBA was in a…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 2
I think everything, really, if we're taking about them—. We talk about money, we talk about everything else, but really it's the citizen, it's the person in the care home who is the most important part of the system. Are you seeing, during all these changes…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 2
Thank you very much.
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 2
It certainly does, Helen, and I think that we've seen, haven't we, in rough numbers, that it's gone from about 95 per cent local authority, 5 per cent private sector, to about 5 per cent local authority and 95 per cent private sector. I have views on it that…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 2
Hello, Helen. I'm coming on from where Natasha stopped. We know—in fact, you mentioned it earlier—about the increasing complexity of conditions, and we've got comorbidities. Is enough being done to anticipate and plan for dealing with this in the short and…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you.
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
No. Just really leading on from what you've just said there, what role should Care Forum Wales play in co-ordinating the information from providers?
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
But if you go into a standard spending assessment, it goes down in detail on large numbers of different areas, so perhaps I'd just ask you if you could provide that. The question I want to ask is on performance information. I'm a great believer in performance…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
I don't expect you to be able to answer this question now, but could you write to us and tell us, through you, Chair, of any local authority spending less than the standard spending assessment allocation on care?
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Can I just pick up on some of the things you've just said? You talk about local authorities not spending at capacity in terms of their rate support grant, but the rate support grant is not the whole income had by local authorities. You're right to say 'almost…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you very much.
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
That's partly because my voice started to go as well, so that was mainly my fault rather than yours. Do you support regional partnership boards being put on a statutory footing?
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
I won't pursue that. I was very happy with the old system, where local authorities provided virtually all services. But, the question I want to ask is: what is Care Forum Wales's position on the policy question of whether regional partnership boards should be…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
I don't disagree with that. I have a fear of large national bodies. You talked about the problem of a postcode lottery. We don't have a postcode lottery with the ambulance service—everybody gets a bad service. And I do have concerns that, if you have one big…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you, Natasha. How does Care Forum Wales work with the regional partnership boards to help develop market capacity and the problems on borders? I mean, Ystalyfera and Ystradgynlais—you cross a little bridge and you've moved counties. And I would argue…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
And some of us remember when they were part of local authorities, and the careers service was part of a local authority. What we've seen, and it's something I find disappointing, is the movement of organisations from being under control of local government…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
You'll remember, Mark, like, I think, most of the other people in this room, Rhodri Morgan's bonfire of the quangos. It didn't work. I think that there are an awful lot of bodies there that I find great difficulty in understanding why they have to be…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
I'm not sure if it's registrable, but I'd like to declare I chair the cross-party group on age and ageing.
27 April 2022 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The cost-of-living crisis and housing
I always say that, Jack Sargeant. It should be noted that this is all happening even though private rents across the UK have increased by far less over the last year than all measures of inflation. Can I agree with one thing of the Conservatives? There are…
27 April 2022 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The cost-of-living crisis and housing
Can I thank Plaid Cymru for tabling this debate? I'm also pleased that I am no longer a lone voice raising housing concerns—we're talking about it more and more. Can I just say something in response to what Janet Finch-Saunders said? And I'm quite happy to be…
27 April 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Whilst we can make regulations about the buying and selling of dogs, unless there is a paper trail—or more correctly today, an electronic trail—it will always be open to abuse. Does the Minister agree with me that a good first step would be to bring back dog…
