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3,635 speeches and questions

12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Paul, did you want to come in?
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Thanks, Gareth. Mabon, you didn't want to come in on this point anymore? No. That's fine. Joyce Watson.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Thank you, Joyce. Gareth Davies.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Paul, you wanted to come in.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Okay. Thank you. Understood, yes. Joyce Watson.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
I suppose Mabon's question was about not having those good examples, but how those good examples are shared, and what are the barriers to sharing.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
We're just a little short of time, but if you can just—. Sorry to have to ask for shorter replies to questions.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Thank you. Thank you, Darren. We've got quite a few areas to get through, so, I think, for each area—just to give Members an indication—we've probably got about less than 10 minutes to cover each section, so just to give some indication for that. Mabon ap…
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Thank you, Paul. Jack, you've got a supplementary question.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Thank you, Sarah. There are a couple of supplementary questions from Gareth and Jack. Did you want to come in with your question, Gareth?
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Thank you. I'm just conscious of time—
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Who would like to take that? Paul.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
I'm looking at other colleagues who want to come in—Darren or Matthew.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Who would like to take that? Paul.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Well, with that, I'll come on to the next set of questions—Sarah Murphy.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Yes. Thank you, Matthew. I suppose my final question on this section is—. The Government would say, the Minister would say, 'Look, we've invested considerably, we're putting money into diagnostic and surgical hubs'. Is it the case that the right support has…
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Yes, sure. I'm just going to pick up on a point as well. The health Minister has said that, in terms of tackling the NHS backlog and the slower than anticipated, I suppose, progress, health boards need to go faster and speed up the process, so I suppose I'm…
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Okay.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
And what's the Welsh Government's response to that call?
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Darren.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
No. Understood, absolutely. Jack Sargeant, you wanted to come in.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
Yes.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
But, just to be clear, the five recovery targets, are they measuring the right priorities? That was the question.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
If I could just add to that, I suppose, the Welsh Government has got the five recovery targets. In your view, are those targets measuring the right priorities? Paul wants to come in as well. Shall I bring Paul in? Paul Mears.
12 July 2023Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
We can hear you now. Go ahead, Paul.