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Plaid Cymru Debate: Respiratory disease
Thank you very much, Llywydd, and I'd like to thank everyone, including the Minister, who has taken part in this debate. I did foresee that we would hear very strong evidence, and we did hear very strong evidence about the need to act in this area. We've…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Respiratory disease
And let us be entirely clear from the very outset here, we have a very real problem in Wales with lung health and respiratory disease, with the highest number of deaths in western Europe in our population, and that is something that I find frightening, and…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Respiratory disease
Thank you very much, Llywydd, and it's my pleasure to open this important debate today in the name of Plaid Cymru on lung health.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
The last question—.
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Motion under Standing Order 16.5 to establish a Senedd Committee
Just a very brief intervention, and I thank you for taking that intervention. Just to make the case, of course, that we worked together on making that submission to the Senedd to discuss a special purpose committee towards the end of last year. And my point…
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Motion under Standing Order 16.5 to establish a Senedd Committee
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. I and my Plaid Cymru colleagues have been consistent from the very earliest days of the COVID pandemic, three years ago, in arguing that we would need a Wales-specific COVID inquiry to investigate a wide range of issues about…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Incontinence
I hadn't intended to speak in this debate, but I felt compelled to do so. We're fortunate in this Parliament that we have, over the years, had a number of Members who are willing to speak from personal experience. I pay tribute today to a number of Members…
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Topical Questions
A couple of questions. Firstly, the coroner is reported today to have said that there would be an examination of all cases of a similar nature in relation to vascular services. Can the Minister tell us how Welsh Government will help ensure that examination of…
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Topical Questions
My thoughts certainly are with the families of these four individuals, who have to relive their period of profound grief once again. But I am very pleased that the coroner has provided an opportunity now to look at the unacceptable risks that patients had to…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you for that response, Minister. I know that there are concerns on Anglesey, as there are in other authorities, that a failure to access capital funding does endanger the condition of the estate more generally. We need to continue to invest in…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
10. Will the Minister make a statement on the capital funds that are available from the Welsh Government for the maintenance of Anglesey County Council's public assets? OQ59482
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
I appreciate that, diolch.
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
And we'd be very grateful for any further information that you can offer on that. Dr Ali, did you have any comments on the impact of COVID, at the time, during the depths of the pandemic, or now?
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
Do we understand the extent of it? Is it being measured properly? Are we able to—? Government is right to say that COVID has made its challenges even greater in terms of the health of the nation, although lots of these problems existed prior to COVID. But are…
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
Are you able to see that in your practice?
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
And we know that people didn't for a period.
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
Okay, thank you. And a final question. We are emerging from—I guess that's the phrase—a pandemic, and we have given a lot of thought to its impact on cancer pathways. Our big fear during the depths of the pandemic was that people would be presenting later and…
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
So, it's not a matter of looking at which health board is doing it better or worse, even though—. We don't talk positively about Betsi Cadwaladr too often, but it has better cancer outcomes than other parts of Wales. But it's not necessarily looking at a…
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
Yes, okay. A question specifically about the situation in Wales. We hear from the RCGP that there is a very big difference between some parts of Wales and others in terms of how good the referral system works. Are we able to pinpoint where our problems are…
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
No, that's precisely the question. I think you perhaps, Dr Karupiah, would like to come in, with the shaking of the head suggesting that you wanted to agree.
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
Yes, I think you're right. But I guess the answer would be that you build in a solid triage system into that self-referral system. Again, something that Dr Karupiah has responded to, a quick one to you on the use of blood tests and ultrasound at the same…
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
Okay. Dr Ali?
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
Okay. Thanks for that. Let's look for another shortcut, then. It has been suggested to us, by Cancer Research UK, and the point was made by a number of charities to us: why not encourage and promote self-referral? Because some people will be thinking that…
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4
Thank you. A couple of questions about speeding up the diagnosis process. I think, Dr Karupiah, you have answered and given your thoughts on rapid diagnostic centres. If I could perhaps ask you, Dr Ali, your thoughts on whether that's the key answer, to roll…
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Gynaecological cancers: Panel 3
Just very quickly, is that number growing because there are more patients and therefore the 5 per cent is getting greater, or is there a higher and higher percentage of people that are falling by the wayside?
