6 July 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the secondary care sector
Is that happening? Who should be doing that? Who should be leading the work of identifying the potential of social prescribing and spotting those things that people like you can use?
6 July 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the secondary care sector
Are we exploiting the potential of social prescribing at all? Are we pushing the boundaries of what you can achieve through social prescribing, given that, in theory, it's a positive thing and most people will talk positively about social prescribing? Are we…
6 July 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the secondary care sector
When you have different parts of the system working effectively together, does that clearly lead to better outcomes for the patient, for the individual, in that you're more likely to see a more tailored, a more nuanced set of treatments and support, if you…
6 July 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the secondary care sector
Are we seeing examples of good practice where people are able to come out of their silos and work effectively, and what does that look like if you are seeing good examples?
6 July 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the secondary care sector
Diolch yn fawr iawn. A very good afternoon—no, morning, still; I'm getting ahead of myself. If we look at the need to work, as so often across health and care, in a joined-up way, getting agencies to work effectively together, what are the barriers to making…
6 July 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the primary care sector
Thank you, all. Thank you.
6 July 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the primary care sector
Does that include understanding better what social prescribing could be?
6 July 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the primary care sector
Thank you. And just one last question. Building on the comments that you made about social prescribing and your use of the benefits of that, just briefly, as we look to make recommendations at the end of this work, is investing in identifying the potential of…
6 July 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the primary care sector
Euan.
6 July 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the primary care sector
Where do you think we are on that balance between building a society and communities that support people's well-being in general and making sure that we have the more specific interventions?
6 July 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the primary care sector
Thank you very much. It's really interesting to listen to you and we've had really comprehensive answers already. So, just to take this a step further on some of the matters that have already been raised, on the point that you were raising there about…
5 July 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Women’s Health
I think what we're starting to realise is the importance of gender-specific healthcare in its widest meaning, and the need to tailor healthcare for the needs of more than half the population. It's not just specifically about gender-specific conditions or…
5 July 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Women’s Health
Thank you to the Minister for the statement on the quality statement. It's a significant step, I think. Two months have passed since we in Plaid Cymru tabled a motion to the Senedd emphasising the importance of addressing issues around women and girls'…
29 June 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you, Mr Dennis. Thank you, Chair.
29 June 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you for that, and thanks also for, if you like, the long version of your view of what the ambulance service could and should be. But I'm just going to finish off my questions by asking you, if you could, to just sum up. When somebody asks me later…
29 June 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
You're right: there's a culture change that's needed in our relationship with health and care in many ways. You've quite rightly emphasised the need for co-operation across health and care. WAST itself has said that it wants to see the whole system as being…
29 June 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Of course, the ambulance service is already doing this and has already been trying to do this, and you've said a couple of times that you would like to see more of a shift from a traditional transportation role to more of a core caring role. I can hear people…
29 June 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
I'll pick up on a couple of those points that you've raised there. The Minister made it clear in a statement on 19 May, I think, that she expects 'consult and close' techniques, or ways of working, to lead to a 15 per cent reduction in the number of patients…
29 June 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Now, given that so many of the problems are in other parts of the health and care services that you won't have responsibility for, are you truly confident that you can even set that kind of objective?
29 June 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
'Demonstrable improvements in service levels'.
29 June 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you very much, and a warm welcome, Mr Dennis. The problems of the health service and the way that they affect the ambulance services are well known in Wales. What we very often see is the ambulances piled up outside our hospitals, but, of course, the…
29 June 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Diabetes
I'll conclude my contribution now. We have to make that shift from needing to spend a great deal because we fail to treat people in time to spending less through preventing these issues in the first instance, and this is an excellent example of that.
29 June 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Diabetes
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. I move those amendments. This is a very important debate. It's a timely debate, and I'm very pleased that the motion was put forward by the Conservatives. I attended an event in Cardiff Bay earlier this month—the Deputy…
29 June 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—'Waiting well? The impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales'
First of all, may I thank my fellow committee members for having collaborated with you on this report? I'd like to thank the clerking team and the wider support team and the research team, and everyone who shared with us as a committee their experiences and…
29 June 2022 , Plenary
Topical Questions
Since 2018, the policy in Wales is that eye care and the kind of care that is provided is based on the level of risk. It was innovative in that regard, with patients being seen according to how much risk they face. And the highest risk factor is for those who…
