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Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
I'm very happy for Sue to come in first, then, and then you to follow, Alex. Sue.
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Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
Thank you ever so much for being with us this morning, and it's nice to welcome you all here for the first time for this new committee in the sixth Senedd. Thanks for your time this morning, and your papers in advance as well. Can I just check—? There was…
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Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
Welcome back to the Health and Social Care Committee. I move to item 3, and this is in regard to our next item, the health and social care workforce, and an evidence session this morning with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales. We've…
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you for that. We'll take a 12 to 15-minute break. If everyone could be back just before a quarter past 10.
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you, Gareth. Mr Elias, thank you for your time this morning. I appreciate that you've got a meeting at 10 o'clock, so we did promise to make sure we finished before then. Thank you for your time this morning. I'm sure Members will want to welcome you…
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you, Mike, Mr Elias. Last set of questions from Gareth Davies.
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Mike Hedges. You're still on mute, Mike. There we are.
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Yes, Joyce. Sorry—you wanted to come in?
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
[Inaudible.]—on a supplementary.
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
There we are. I do apologise. Sorry, Rhun—your question again.
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Oh, I do apologise. I could hear the translation on my side, so there may have been an issue there. If I can just point you to your screen, and there's a globe at the bottom, and if you click on that globe and click onto 'English', on that screen, and I'll…
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Mr Elias. Can I just check, Mr Elias—can you hear me okay?
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you. Rhun ap Iorwerth.
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Mr Elias, can I just ask a further question on that? How are you, I suppose, ensuring that the board members are working effectively together in terms of their relationship and your relationship with staff directly as well?
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Joyce Watson.
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you, Mr Elias. So, Members have got a series of questions. Jack Sargeant.
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you. And do you think, in your initial assessment, there are any other successes or failures that you've considered, in terms of your initial assessment, that perhaps you haven't already outlined in your earlier questions, that you think might hinder?
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you, Mr Elias. In terms of you setting out your objectives there, what do you think are the main challenges or risks to achieving your objectives and the vision that you've set out?
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Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
In that case, I move to item 2, and this is a post-appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Mr Emrys Elias. I'd like to welcome you to the meeting this morning, and thank you, Mr Elias, as well for your…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Bore da. Croeso, bawb. I'd like to welcome Members to the Health and Social Care Committee this morning. We're in a hybrid format for this session today, with some Members here on the Senedd estate and other Members joining remotely. All our witnesses today…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on the decarbonisation programme for health and social care
Minister, can I thank you for your statement this afternoon? Of course, as the world focuses on our climate emergency—and that's what it is—I think it's right that we discuss this in the context of health and social care. So, in that regard, I welcome the…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
Minister, can I thank you for the update today you've given us on COVID-19? Now, you say in your statement, Minister, that there is a rising number of COVID cases leading to greater occupancy of hospital beds and ICUs, and I would agree with you that is a…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health and Social Care Winter Protection Plan 2021-22
I'll ask my last question in that case, Deputy Presiding Officer. You also mentioned planned care, and I note that you're leaving a formal plan until the planned care summit in November. Meanwhile, both England and Scotland have been doing their utmost to…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health and Social Care Winter Protection Plan 2021-22
Diolch, Deputy Presiding Officer. Minister, can I thank you for your update you've given us today on the health and care plan for the winter? But that's what it is, of course, today—it's an update and not the plan itself. I think Members across this Chamber…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Minister, can I ask you about support for community councils, in particular, from Welsh Government? I'm aware that, under the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021, there's a requirement for community councils to put in place systems to allow for…
