, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Local government then needs to procure a range of health services. How will this legislation affect them, and what plans are there to develop their role as local authorities and their capacity to procure health services? What you've described thus far feels…
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Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Okay. There are some who have told us, including the Association of Directors of Social Services, I believe, that they fear that not including explicitly social care in there might limit the moves towards integration. Politically, Minister, what would you say…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you for that. That's useful. I'd like to now ask about one area that's not there, namely social care. It's an aim of the Welsh Government to move to integrate more in health and social care. Does this Bill in any way reflect the intention to move in…
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Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Okay. So, the scope is all of them; it's at the regulation-making stage that you decide technically which ones.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Under regulations? Yes.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you very much. I'd like to look at the scope of the new regime. It is still unclear what exactly will come out of the consultation in England, but the indications are that they'll include all NHS services and include a wide range of primary care…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Yes. Diolch.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
So, the immunisation example would be a good one, actually. If you're buying an immunisation package, complete with the vaccine, it probably would, or it could, yes. Yes.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
It's 'could', I'm looking for—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
You've decided not to: 'You buy it all. You buy it all in; we'll just pay for the whole service.' That could include the pharmaceuticals, or the vaccine, or whatever, as part of a package.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
It's literally just to tease out what Joyce was saying. Could you buy the vaccine as a part of that package? You're not procuring it yourself, but you're buying a service that comes with a person and a room and a jab.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Our hope is that you already have it, that you could pass it on.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Indeed.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
It would be very useful to us as a committee if we were able to have this—even if it's unattributed, even if it's fairly confidential—so that we can understand better those actual concerns that arise from actual contracts that are currently held between the…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
I want to go back to the response to Jack's question. I understand in principle why officials would be afraid that service providers could decide that they don't want to provide services to Wales again. That would raise concerns about losing services. But to…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Okay, thank you.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Can I come in straight away, just with a little supplementary? You said that you want to give yourselves an opportunity, as a Government, to align with changes in England. Do you see it exclusively in that way? Or do you see this also as an opportunity to…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Palliative care
To close, as I said, this debate is another opportunity to look at the specific problems that we had in Wales during the pandemic period. But we can't understand those problems properly and we can't learn the lessons stemming from those experiences unless the…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Palliative care
It was very, very disappointing to see the announcement that children's hospices are not to receive an increase in financial support for provision of end-of-life care as part of the phase 2 funding and, with no timeline in sight for the commencement of phase…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Palliative care
Thank you for bringing this motion forward today, Mark Isherwood. I'm very pleased to be able to take part in this debate, and very grateful for the work that was done by the cross-party group on palliative and hospice care in creating the report that forms…
, Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Wales tourism Bill
Will you take an intervention? I know the time is tight, but would the Member agree with me that it can't just be about empowering tourism businesses, but about devising tourism in a way that works, yes, for those businesses, but for the communities in which…
, Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Wales tourism Bill
I'm happy to support this legislative proposal, although I should explain that I'm approaching it from a slightly different angle to the Member that moved the motion. I will talk of my experience as a journalist back 20 years ago. I recall during that time…
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Topical Questions
Well, it's not that they haven't been fully resolved; there have only been minor improvements. There is one sentence that really struck me, namely that, 'Inspectors from Healthcare Inspectorate Wales had to assist one patient who needed help but no member of…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
'Many of the issues have not been fully resolved'.
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Here we are again—another damning report. We are talking about an inspection that had placed the emergency department at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in May of last year under the designation of a service that needs substantial improvement. Let's be clear that this is…
