15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales
Lovely. So, before I move on, I think, Dr Turner, you wanted to come in, but I'm just interested also to hear about your views on the recruitment campaign as well.
15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales
Thank you. I'll just bring in Dr Jarvis. Anything you want to comment on anything that I've asked or anything that's been said?
15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales
Are they working, those campaigns? Are they working well, as you'd like them to?
15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales
Are these roles that you mentioned—? You mentioned a number of different roles. Are they perceived as being attractive or less attractive? I ask that question in terms of attempting to try and recruit people to these roles.
15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales
Sure. Thank you. Just give us, or give me, as a lay person, an understanding of the roles within endoscopy, because I can see there's mention of clinical nurse endoscopist roles. Just explain this.
15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales
Okay, that's fine. I can see Dr Green wanting to come in.
15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales
And it's good to know that that is in progress, but just give us an understanding of why that data isn't available now, I suppose.
15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales
So, just for my understanding as well, do you think that we have a clear picture of the workforce, the numbers in the workforce throughout endoscopy services now? Do we have a clear picture of that? I ask that again because we had some contradictory evidence…
15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales
That's it, thank you, and welcome back to committee. Thanks both for being with us also today as well. Do we have a clear picture of the current endoscopy workforce now, and also what we might need into the future? Who would like to tackle that first? I'm…
15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales
Thank you for being with us.
15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales
Right, I move to item 2, and this is in regards to our work, our short inquiry into endoscopy services, to consider the actions that are needed to implement the national endoscopy action plan and ultimately reduce waiting times. I'd like to thank all our…
15 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Bore da and welcome to Health and Social Care Committee this morning. I move to item 1. We have no apologies this morning and no substitutions. If there are any declarations of interest, please say now. That's great. And of course, as always, we operate…
14 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill
Minister, can I thank you in advance for the briefing that you gave to the Health and Social Care Committee last week? I know that your officials are going to be providing a technical briefing to Members as well, so that's of course appreciated. Of course, we…
14 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: The Roads Review and National Transport Delivery Plan
Minister, I'm disappointed that a number of schemes that I've been promoting for many years are not progressing, but I was pleased to see that the Caersws road scheme is progressing, and really I suppose to challenge that perhaps it really shouldn't have been…
14 February 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Minister, a year ago, the Welsh Conservatives put forward a motion asking the Welsh Government to provide free dentistry services for those undergoing radiotherapy or chemotherapy to alleviate the negative side effects of treatment but also allowing patients…
8 February 2023 , Plenary
Short Debate: Benefits of medical research in Wales
Diolch, Llywydd. I give a minute of my time to Mike Hedges and Rhun ap Iorwerth as well. We currently face extreme pressures on our NHS, our health, and our economy, and our response to this extreme pressure must also provide long-term solutions that improve…
8 February 2023 , Plenary
Topical Questions
Thank you, Minister, for your answer this afternoon. I do hope, of course, that a solution is found and agreed that can lead to further industrial action not taking place in Wales. I have asked my topical question this afternoon because I had further…
8 February 2023 , Plenary
Topical Questions
2. Will the Minister make a statement on the new Welsh Government pay offer put to NHS workers? TQ725
7 February 2023 , Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
I'm in the class of 2011, Llywydd. Thank you, Llywydd. I'm speaking in my capacity as the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee. Now, last year, I opened my contribution to this debate by thanking everyone who worked in the health and social care…
7 February 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I thank you, Trefnydd, for your response there. And, of course, Trefnydd, you may be aware that there are hundreds of thousands of people who have left the workforce since 2019, and there are big efforts in terms of keeping older people in their jobs for…
7 February 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
7. How is the Welsh Government supporting businesses to extend their occupational health offering? OQ59105
2 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of this meeting
That brings our public session to an end today. Good afternoon. Oh—sorry, no. That's why we have clerks in committees, because clerks tell us when we go wrong. There's an item 6, so we have a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public…
2 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Paper(s) to note
I move to item 5, a number of papers to note. If you remember, we had a session with Digital Health and Care Wales last October, so there's quite a bit of correspondence following on from that session. There's some correspondence with the Welsh Government…
2 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the National Endoscopy Programme and Wales Cancer Network
We'll keep you—. By all means, follow the rest of the sessions. We haven't got many sessions, but follow the work of the committee by all means, and come back to us if there's anything further you'd like to add. Thank you both. Diolch yn fawr iawn.
2 February 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the National Endoscopy Programme and Wales Cancer Network
Okay, thank you. That's very helpful to end this session. Can I thank you both for your time? I know that you're both very busy and I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to help us with our inquiry. So, diolch yn fawr iawn, thank you very much.
