Speeches and questions

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Thanks, Danielle. Gareth Davies.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Thanks, Mike. Did your research only look at deprivation, or did it look at other factors, such as whether older people or women are waiting for longer periods of time?

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Thanks, Jonathon. You threw up lots of questions there, but I'm just conscious of time, actually. Mike Hedges.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Thanks, Sue. My next question is to any of the panel members. I just want to understand a bit more about the research behind waiting lists, and to understand the extent of how much surgical activity was affected by the pandemic, but also the extent of any…

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

These are all valid points by Joyce. I'm just conscious that mine was a supplementary to Rhun's, and yours is a supplementary to my supplementary, so we don't want to—. I'm just keen not to go too much off track. But Joyce's points, of course, are valid. Do…

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Joyce, you wanted to come in.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Thank you, Jack. I think, Sue, what you're suggesting is that this is mandated from the Minister rather than the Minister relaying the message or asking health boards to bring forward their own solutions. Have I got that right?

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Jack, you wanted to come in, I think, on this.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

So what does the Welsh Government need to do?

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Thank you, Rhun. Can I just pick up Sue Hill's point on the regional surgical hubs? It's Welsh Government's position to support regional surgical hubs, but there seems to be some delay in moving forward with this. Why is that, and what should the Government…

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Lovely. Stop Rhun if you can't hear it. If he doesn't see you shouting and waving, he'll assume you can hear.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

If you go to the globe at the bottom and you click on to 'English', you should be able to hear.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Sorry, just to check, Sue, are you okay? Can you hear the Welsh translation?

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Thank you ever so much for your time with us this afternoon, we greatly appreciate it. So, Members have got a series of questions and the first set of questions is from Rhun ap Iorwerth.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

Good afternoon and welcome back to the Health and Social Care Committee. I move to item 8. This is a session in regard to our work on the impact of the waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment. We have an evidence session…

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 5, 6, 7, and 9 of today's meeting

Okay. I move to item 4, and I propose, under Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to exclude the public from items 5, 6, 7 and 9 of today's meeting. And if Members are content with that, it will just mean that we come back into public session at…

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Papers to note

Yes, absolutely. I think we've got some time scheduled for that later in our meeting, so we'll absolutely do just that. Thank you, Rhun.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Papers to note

Moving to item 3, we have a vast amount of papers to note. We're clearly a very popular committee. I'm not going to read them all out, because it will take too much time, but they are in the public pack. Some of them we're discussing later on in our meeting…

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being

Thank you, Minister. Any officials got anything to add in terms of the modelling at all? No. Okay. Thank you very much. Well, diolch yn fawr iawn. Can I thank the Ministers and officials for your attendance this morning? I greatly appreciate it. We've got a…

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being

Thank you, Minister. Just one final question from me: during the scrutiny of the First Minister session last month, in December, the First Minister said that some modelling was showing that, in January, half the UK population could be ill with COVID. Do we…

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being

Thank you ever so much, Judith. Appreciate that. Any more Members got—? I've got Rhun waiting. Anybody else? I've got one question myself. No. So, Rhun, and then myself, and then we'll end the session. Rhun ap Iorwerth.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being

Thank you, Joyce. Just briefly, Judith. I think we're a little over time.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being

Thank you. Joyce Watson.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being

Is that Lynne, or does the Minister want to come in on this? Lynne Neagle.

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being

You're free to go.