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Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 2
Thank you, Chair. Welcome, Helen. I'm going to be asking you a series of questions about regional commissioning, and it will be followed by my colleague Mike, who'll be taking the reins from me. But before I go into that side of things, can you just tell…
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Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you, Mary. I'll pass you over to my colleague Mike Hedges.
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Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Okay. And my final question is that we all know that health conditions change on a regular basis—for example, there are various ones, Alzheimer's, dementia, et cetera—and health conditions are going to be varying over the years and perhaps the next decade…
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Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Fantastic, thank you so much. And what sort of strategies are you working on at the moment with the other groups and organisations to ensure that we create and shape a great care home system for the future?
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Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you, Chair. So, Mary, I'll be asking you a couple of questions and I'll be passing over to my colleague, Mike, to ask you the remainder. I'm going to ask you about regional partnership boards and I'm slightly going off key by asking you this, but I'd…
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Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you very much. Thank you, Chair.
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Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Okay. My final question for this particular segment: you mentioned funding in one of your previous answers to our Chair, if we could give you a magic bag of money—I know you mentioned that training would be essential for many of the professionals who work in…
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Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you so, so much. I'd just like to ask you, you mentioned about various areas, and you mentioned about how needs will be different, depending on where the desire is to have them, but to what extent do you find that similar issues are reflected, that we…
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Papers to note
I agree with Mike on this. I think it would be very beneficial for us to bring that up in a future session.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
I feel like I need to take a breather after that. Okay. First, let me begin by saying Wales has a unique landscape, a unique history and a unique culture. For years, especially during the lockdown, and recently over the Easter break, all of us saw visitors…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you so much, Minister. The UK Conservative Government is seeking views from the public and industry on plans to safeguard the welfare of imported puppies and dogs. The Dogs Trust points out that, currently, only, and I quote, 'a "document and identity"…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
3. How is the Welsh Government co-operating with UK Government departments and agencies to protect animal welfare by preventing the illegal importation of dogs through Welsh ports? OQ57924
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Minister, I'm sure that you'll recognise, and from the answers that you've given so far, you definitely do recognise the importance of keeping people in employment to support them through the cost-of-living crisis. So, just to clarify, in addition to the UK…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Deputy Minister, last week, the Law Commission made a number of recommendations for a new safety regime to help protect against a range of threats to coal tip safety and to ensure a consistent approach is taken to all tips in Wales, in response to which you…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, in June last year, it was reported that Wales has the highest proportion of children in the UK being cared for by the state. There were 7,170 children being looked after away from home in Wales, which is actually 1.14 per cent of the children…
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Governance issues at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: Evidence session with the Health Board
No, it's okay—thank you so much, Chair.
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Governance issues at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: Evidence session with the Health Board
Thank you very much. I have one final question, and then I'll pass over to my colleague and the Chair. You've received Welsh Government funding for three and a half years. What happens if the board can't deliver a sustainable and robust return to financial…
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Governance issues at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: Evidence session with the Health Board
Thank you very much for that. You actually answered a lot of the questions that I had pre-planned, but I'm going to ask two more questions and I'll pass it on to my colleague, if that's okay. You mentioned previously—. When I asked you what were some of the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Governance issues at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: Evidence session with the Health Board
Thank you very much for that. The report from the previous Public Accounts Committee identified issues around leadership at senior levels at the health board. So, I'd like to now ask you all whether the health board is now in a position, and has the capacity…
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Governance issues at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: Evidence session with the Health Board
Thank you very much for that. Can you please provide me, and the committee, with an update as to the progress of the TI framework that you have at the moment? What are some of the key challenges that you're experiencing at the moment? Are there any hurdles…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Governance issues at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: Evidence session with the Health Board
Thank you, I will. Good morning, everybody. Just a quick one, coming on from our Chair's question to you. In relation to de-escalation arrangements, from my understanding, the TIF sets out that, under the joint escalation intervention arrangements, the Welsh…
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Governance issues at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: Evidence session with the Health Board
Sorry, Chair, I have a question in relation to de-escalation before we move on to the second section. Do you want me to ask that now, or shall I just start with that?
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Papers to Note
I know I've spoken about this previously in a meeting that we've had, and I'd very happily like to see the term 'ethnic minority' used, as opposed to BAME. I find BAME is rather obtuse as a term for people who are not from the black ethnic minority…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Ukraine
Russian tanks moving westward, cities being shelled and under siege, long columns of refugees trying to escape the fighting. You would be forgiven if you thought I was referring to events in Germany at the end of world war two. Sadly, that is not the case…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Minister, the UK Conservative Government has provided Wales with £175 million to help hard-working families in Wales with a financial lifeline to help ease the pressure of the cost of living. [Interruption.] 'Yay', exactly. I welcome the Welsh Government's…
