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4,002 speeches and questions

19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
So, you're all saying on this panel that you're all in agreement that there should be central waiting lists by health board area, but you need the resource to do it. You all agree with that point, yes?
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Well, I'm asking you to, I suppose, speculate on what the obstacles are for them, I suppose.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
And why is it that you think other health boards in Wales, perhaps, are not having a central waiting list?
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Yes. But the waiting list is separate, isn't it? It's still a waiting list, but—.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Yes.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
So, you think there should be a central waiting list, by health board, across Wales.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
But you're saying you've got a central waiting list now.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
So, it's not that the member of the public contacts the health board and asks to go on a list; they go into the practice and say, 'I want to go on a waiting list', and you're suggesting that waiting list works centrally across the health board area.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
And that works live with each practice, because they go into a practice.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
How do you do a central waiting list if each dentist practice is—? Because a member of the public walks in, registers with one and says, 'Can I go on your waiting list?' They say, 'Oh, yes, okay.' Do they then tell you, or do they—?
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Thank you. Can I just ask a process question, just to help me understand? If a member of the public—. Maybe they've attempted to register with an NHS dentist for check-ups, but they can't do that. They then get into an element of needing to see a dentist…
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Ruwa.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
So, who wants to answer that? We're talking about, if you got a limited amount of additional money, what would be the priority spend.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Okay. Thank you, Ruwa. We'd better move on. The last set of questions, perhaps, from Joyce Watson.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Absolutely. Ruwa.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
I'll bring Gareth in. Do you have any more questions, Gareth?
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Right. Okay. And, Manolis, you wanted to come in?
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Okay. If anybody wants to ask any questions on this—. It sounds like a massive challenge, though, because if you've got a dentist that is an independent provider and then doing private as well, it sounds complicated to achieve what you want to achieve. I…
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
And just for the record here, other panel members were all nodding. So, you're all in agreement with each other on this issue. Rob.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
And you all agree. All of you on the panel agree with Ruwa—yes?
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Are you saying that other information could be populated and you wouldn't then have to ask for it each time? Is that what you're saying?
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
What's unnecessary?
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
How do you do that?
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
Okay.
19 October 2022Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
And that has to be overseen by Welsh Government.