, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
Who—? I assume we're not going to have legislation on this. Would a letter from the health Minister—? Sorry to go on, Chair, but would a letter from the health Minister to local authorities telling them that they could use their discretion to do this actually…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
Can I come back to Calum for my last question? Occupational health—are they still constrained by rules that are not necessarily beneficial? I dealt with an elderly lady who had mobility difficulties, and they wanted to cover her house with grab rails…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
Why can't we have one in south-west Wales? I'm sure Calum would agree with me that far too often Wales is seen as, by having somebody up in the north, somebody in Cardiff or the Cardiff and Vale area, then that's Wales done. There's the Swansea bay region…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
Two very brief questions. The first one is: we need more of all the additional health professionals. How do we set about it? Is there capacity in universities, is there capacity in places, for them to be trained? If we wanted a 20 per cent increase in speech…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
I'll just finish on this point and I don't expect you to answer, but, strategically, management and tactical management can be absolutely right and can be working quite well—they do in lots of places—but you go down to the operational managers, the whole…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
I agree with you entirely, but is it not true since we've had health boards, with primary and secondary care coming under them, primary care has lost out dramatically as a proportion of the budget being spent on primary care? That's a matter of fact that you…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
Thank you for that. I wanted to move on now to where should the allied health professionals be. There's a limited number. I'd love to ask you questions on the workforce, but I'm not allowed to do that; somebody else is going to talk about that, possibly my…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
Moving on to variations—I'm supposed to talk about variations across Wales—I'd like to ask about variations within health boards: different hospitals having different policies, different consultants working better with GPs and others, different consultants…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
We haven't got a nutritionist, I don't think, on this panel, but can I just ask if you agree with me that there's a serious role for nutritionists? Far too many people go into hospital and they tend to eat very little and their weight drops. At one stage…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
Thank you. Diolch, Cadeirydd. I was going to talk about rehabilitation. We've talked a little bit about it already. I don't know if you heard the evidence from Dr Davis in the session before you, but he agreed with me on something, which is that people get…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Is that okay, Chair?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
There are a lot of other things I'd like to ask you, but the Chair would be really angry with me if I keep on asking them. Would it be possible to write to you with additional questions after this meeting?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
I dealt with a constituent who was in for seven days for assessment, and he said, 'If I'd been in another seven days, I wouldn't have been able to go home.' That's the sort of thing that has stuck with me. But can I move on to children? Are there particular…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Can I come back and say that my sister-in-law is a district nurse? I don't think I have to declare that, but I think I ought to make that as a point. The final point on this, if I can talk about children services, is that if you got everybody who could be…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
That's exactly what I wanted to hear said. Can I just carry on from that? Swansea council, which you probably know a little about, use Bonymaen House as an enablement centre, so people who come out go into Bonymaen House for a week or so to see if they can…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Diolch, Gadeirydd. The first question I'd like to ask is: what do you think is the key barrier to effective discharge? And can you explain to me, or is my experience different, that people go in for operations—orthopaedics especially—where they should come…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
I speak as someone who has long supported free school meals in state primary schools, not just to support local farmers, but, more importantly to me, to improve the health of children and improve educational attainment. Hungry children do not perform very…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
Okay. Thank you very much.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
I'm sure there are going to be a lot more conversations to take place on the shared space issue, and I think some of that might reflect the way in which there may be different working arrangements that have been embedded and will emerge from the pandemic…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
That's the answer I wanted, that you are looking at it and you're trying to take it forward. There are things like shared space as well. There is a terrible tendency amongst organisations to want to be everything themselves, and there's a cost to the public…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
I was just using local government as an exemplar; I often do that because I know a bit about local government—probably more than I know about other areas—but the exemplar was that what you had was a ratcheting up and moving mean, and I think you've given…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
Can I ask a question on pay first? The Public Accounts Committee previously reported on chief executives of local authorities's, amongst others, pay, and what we saw was what, once again, we knew: there was a ratcheting up or a moving upward mean and median…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
I don't think it's a declarable interest, but I will say that something like 15, 20 years ago I was a member of the land drainage board dealing with west Wales. That's me finished, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
And finally from me: we've gone into the National Library of Wales and I think you've talked to us about that in one of the answers to a previous question. Are there any other organisations that you have concerns about that you would have them on the first of…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
Thank you for that. Talking about an area that the Public Accounts Committee have talked to you about fairly regularly in the past in your previous job—feeding patients. The auditor general's produced lots of reports. The view of each hospital board—it's…
