, Health and Social Care Committee
Social care horizon-scanning: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales
But you haven't quantified it as such.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Social care horizon-scanning: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales
—zipping between the two. A quick question on the impact of Brexit, perhaps. We've heard in the past few days about the impact of Brexit on the health workforce. Are you able to identify an impact on the loss of potential workers in social care due to that?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Social care horizon-scanning: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales
And in and out of care/health—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Social care horizon-scanning: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales
So, the idea of a national health and care service, or a national care service, building up a brand similar to health would be important.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Social care horizon-scanning: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales
So, when people and some political parties—including mine, as it happens—have been talking about the need to ensure parity of esteem, not just in the way we talk about social care but in the terms and conditions offered to workers in social care, is that…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Social care horizon-scanning: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales
Thank you very much. We've had very comprehensive answers already. You've answered a lot of the questions that I wanted to ask, in truth. You've identified the increase in demand as one of the big reasons for the pressure that has created this crisis in…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Emergency primary care units are one of the solutions put forward in order to reduce pressures on surgeries. But, in Ynys Môn, we see that nine of the 10 surgeries that we have on the island have made 278 referrals to the new unit in Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Nurses' pay
I did say that retention is perhaps more challenging than recruitment, but we have to ensure that we maintain all the tools needed to bring nurses into the profession, and remember many come not straight from school, but perhaps a little later in life and…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Nurses' pay
Thank you very much, and thank you for everybody's contributions to this debate this afternoon. We've heard from Member after Member why we appreciate nurses so much. Yes, we've thanked them on our doorsteps, as we've thanked all staff in the health and care…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Nurses' pay
Llywydd, it's a word I've used a number of times today: crisis. The NHS is already in crisis. It was pre COVID; it's always important to bear that in mind. But, of course, the pandemic has exacerbated the situation. But the situation could get even more…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Nurses' pay
Tony, a retired child and adolescent mental health nurse, came out of retirement to help during the pandemic, and thank goodness he did. Now on a nurse bank, he says, 'The situation was bad before I retired, but, on returning to work, I was met with excellent…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Nurses' pay
I hope that I have painted a clear picture for you this afternoon as to why we must reach a settlement on the question of wages and support for nurses. But let me make it even more clear through the words and experiences of nurses and their families, speaking…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Nurses' pay
Thank goodness we haven't faced a shortage of people wanting to become nurses, to come into the profession. We've actually seen an increase, a positive increase, in nursing student places in Wales in every year bar one, I think, of the past decade. On its…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Nurses' pay
There are 3,000 vacant nursing posts in the NHS in Wales. Nurses are leaving the profession. The failure to retain staff is a crisis. And unless these questions around salary are addressed, we will lose more—the crisis will deepen. More and more have been…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Nurses' pay
'All strike action ends in the end in negotiation', but how about trying to end the strike action through negotiation? Even UK Government has negotiated, to no avail, but why on earth will the Labour Welsh health Minister not bring everyone back around the…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Nurses' pay
Thank you, Chair. We're today asking the Welsh Government to support Welsh nurses. We're asking the Senedd to support our statement that nurses deserve fair pay for their work, and we ask Ministers to use all levers possible in order to make an improved pay…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
May I make a request for a regular series of statements with regard to the work that is being done to strengthen and reopen Pont y Borth? I've written to the Deputy Minister today. We've heard that work is to start soon on the bridge. We've heard that the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
That was not my question. I was asking about pay negotiations.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
The Minister knows that's not pay negotiations. She also said last week that she was meeting regularly with the Royal College of Nursing—that's not pay negotiations. The meeting that she has just referred to now is not pay negotiations. The last letter, I…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Yes, you are.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. Can the Minister explain why she's refusing to engage in pay negotiations with the Royal College of Nursing?
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
That point with regard to clarity is very important, I think, from the Minister. I also noted the statement by Rolls-Royce with regard to Trawsfynydd and Wylfa too. I happen to be excited about the renewable schemes, marine schemes, off Anglesey, and I also…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you very much. I have kept in close contact—as close as possible—with businesses, and the whole community of course, since the decision was taken to close the bridge. They all want assurances that everything will be done to reopen the bridge as soon as…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
1. Will the Minister make a statement on the economic impact of closing the Menai bridge? OQ58714
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Can I first of all register my support for all RCN members and the way they voted? Nobody wants to see industrial action taking place, and that includes, more than everyone, the nurses themselves. But the fact that this ballot took place in the first place…
