, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: The Learning Disability Action Plan
This is a plan that highlights the key issues, the important issues, the challenges, of course, facing people with learning disabilities, their families and paid carers. I think it's fair to say it's hard to disagree with the aspirations, but where detail is…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
May I draw the First Minister's attention to the Parc Del Fryn housing estate in Brynteg in my constituency? It's a development I've highlighted many times over the years, and it's attracted attention again now as more homes are built. It's a wonderful…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
8. What steps is the Welsh Government taking to protect community interests in the planning process? OQ58114
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Sir Sam Everington
Thank you very much. I really appreciate that.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Sir Sam Everington
I was going to ask you exactly about that point, the short term versus the long term. Because if you're not feeling well today, you can have a pill that hopefully will make you feel better tomorrow. Hopefully there won't be a recurrence, and you'll be better…
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Sir Sam Everington
You said at the outset that you can't distinguish between the emotional, the physical and the mental when you're looking at treating somebody and looking at how to deal with them. To what extent is injecting the social prescribing element key to ensuring you…
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Sir Sam Everington
Thank you very much. I have to say, it's very interesting sitting here listening to you, and I'm really grateful to you for being so ready to share your expertise with us today. As the Chair says, I apologise if it sounds as though we're asking the same…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Day-to-day challenges.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
And if we drilled down, I'm sure we'd find that people who are deaf would be more likely to have—
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Sorry, I think Rhian wanted to—
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Okay, thank you.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Which may well exist here, but if you don't know about it—
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
That's pretty basic, actually, isn't it?
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
So, identifying all the different agencies that can contribute towards that holistic approach is really important.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
So, the agencies themselves don't know what the other agencies are.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Yes. I'll come to you, Nia, as well. We're looking, quite rightly, at this from the point of view of the service user. Just flip it the other way round and look at it from the point of view of the agency that is trying to provide a service—and there are a…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
And we're not just talking social prescribing here—it could be anything, a whole host of agencies working together.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
And that could be easily done and we'd all benefit from broadening that.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Any other thoughts on what would be the barriers to holistic working and agencies working together?
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Just to ask for a little bit more information on something that's already been touched on, which is the integration between different elements of support that people may need. We've heard people talking about the need to think beyond a…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Really stark examples there. Thank you. Diolch.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Yes. I think we could learn a lot more from the group of young people that you've described there. Just one last question from me, if I may, Chair, picking up on the comments that Nia made in particular about the challenges that doing things on digital…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
To me, this really describes inequality, because, quite often, we talk nowadays about a new willingness by some young people to talk about mental health, and this is good, whereas in the past perhaps everybody would have felt that way. Now, there is a group…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
I think it's a very good point, actually. We talked a lot about this in the Senedd yesterday afternoon, differentiating between mental well-being, mental health problems that could develop into something more, and then the serious mental illnesses.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Yes. Ashra.
