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Dentistry - evidence session with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Age Cymru and Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Lovely. Did you want to come in at all, Heléna?
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Dentistry - evidence session with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Age Cymru and Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Do you think it's important to have that data available?
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Dentistry - evidence session with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Age Cymru and Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Okay. I'm kind of reading in between the lines that the answer to my question, I think, from you both, is that there probably isn't that data available, by the sounds of it.
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Dentistry - evidence session with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Age Cymru and Older People's Commissioner for Wales
I suppose the question is not so much about asking you about what the data might say, but whether the data is available. I think your answer is that it isn't, by the sounds of it.
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Dentistry - evidence session with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Age Cymru and Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Lovely. Thank you all for being with us this morning for our second panel today. Is there sufficient data available, do you think, to determine where the inequalities in access to dentistry in Wales are, and how many older people and children are waiting to…
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Dentistry - evidence session with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Age Cymru and Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Welcome back to the Health and Social Care Committee. I move to item 3, and we're continuing with our evidence in regards to our dentistry inquiry. I would be grateful if the witnesses on this next panel could just introduce themselves for the public record.
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
We'll take a 10-minute break and we'll back at 10:55.
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Okay, that's interesting. Thank you. Maybe we can pick up on that. Thank you ever so much for your time this morning, and thank you to you all for agreeing to go a little bit over as well. It was a fascinating session. Both organisations gave very…
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Okay. Just briefly, what were the benefits of that forum?
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Why is that?
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Does that not happen now?
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Yes, thank you. We've really come to the end of our time now. You were looking like you might want to say something briefly, Yvonne Jones.
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
And a very final question, if I can, to Russell and Dan: who do you think are the most impacted by problems with access, both in terms of sectors of society and geographical areas, and the solutions, the answer to that?
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
And, Russell, you wanted to come in, but can I ask you about domiciliary care as well—if you can comment on that?
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Just briefly, if you can, Ben.
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
I think you're asking about hospital dentistry specifically, I suppose.
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Joyce, any brief questions to finish?
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Sure. Ben, you want to come in. It will have to be brief because we're coming to an end now. Dr Ben.
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
And does it need to be expanded because the certain age groups that it was covering were being missed during the course of the pandemic?
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
I'll bring Ben in in a moment. Doesn't Designed to Smile, though, help with that, Yvonne?
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Oh, well, I'll come to Rhun first, if you want to, and then come back to you. Rhun ap Iorwerth.
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
I needed to check that, because our inquiry can't stop you from seeing patients, clearly. Joyce, you have got about five minutes, and then I want to just allow 10 minutes for Rhun at the end. Joyce Watson.
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
That's fine.
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Is that okay with the other witnesses?
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
Can I just check, before I move on to Joyce and then Rhun—have you got the capacity to stay a little bit longer beyond 10.30 a.m.? I have asked that question to Dr Lewis, especially, because I know that you have got patients to see, and the last thing that we…
