, Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Yes. Thanks. Obviously, the NHS in Wales isn't the only large organisation in the world having to regularly roll out digital improvements. I just wondered why, particularly, things seem to take so long on the digital front to deliver in health services, and…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thanks, Mr Chairman. Just to touch on multiple chronic conditions and some of the challenges around those being managed or properly supported. And you mentioned previously, Cabinet Secretary, about the role that perhaps digital improvement projects or apps…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thanks, Cabinet Secretary, for the response. I just note in your response you talked about, rightfully, treating a whole person. But it's that phrase 'treating them', and I wonder if we've got the balance right at the moment between enabling people to support…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Chair, could I just ask a question there?
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for your response, First Minister. Deputy Presiding Officer, the First Minister will know that the most recent waiting lists show numbers increasing in Wales to the highest level on record for people seeking treatments. In addition, Wales, sadly…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
2. Will the First Minister provide an update on waiting lists in the Welsh NHS? OQ61278
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Thanks, Chair.
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
[Inaudible.] Thanks again, Minister, for your time. It was a question from Mark Drakeford, actually, which triggered a memory from yesterday. I chaired the cross-party group yesterday on outdoor activities. That's from across the outdoor activities sector…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Could I—?
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Yes.
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Can I just, in terms of this point, have one moment further, Chair? It's really important as well, and it's a really sensitive issue, but are we seeing any indication of a role of social media with suicide, particularly with younger people? And if so, is…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Yes, thank you, Chair. Just on the back of John Griffiths's points there, and you mentioned it, Minister, as part of your response, suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 50 in the UK, and it's the biggest killer of people of both genders under…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Yes. Thank you. Just finally, from me, Chair, if I may, just around some of the data available to you—this is, I guess, a theme of most committees when it comes to all sorts of issues—and understanding how satisfied you are with the level of data that is…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Yes. Is that able to be expanded beyond Welsh Government ministerial roles and things, so looking at UK Government? Obviously, it's in a certain place at the moment, waiting for a general election on 4 July, but would you be looking to see how you could work…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
I appreciate that, and you're absolutely right in terms of that prevention in the first place. Now, you'll be aware that the committee here produced a report in 2022, I believe it was, around mental health inequalities, and one of the recommendations in there…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Yes, and—
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Thanks, Minister. And just on particular age groups, in my inbox, often, access to CAMHS services for children and adolescents seems to be particularly poor. Do you have any concerns at the moment around some of the child and adolescent mental health services…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Thanks, Chair, and, Minister, thank you for your time this morning—and your official as well. The draft mental health strategy takes an all-age approach, but there are, clearly, some inequalities within certain age groups that we're aware of, and one of the…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Care
You talk about regional working, and I agree with you, but you've got the regional partnership boards that have been set up for, I don't know, six, seven years now probably. They're clearly not doing the job they're supposed to be doing because, actually…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Care
I'm really sorry, Chair, on that point, it's really, really important—
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Care
Transfers of care, as you’ve indicated, Minister, are fundamental to dealing with those waiting lists, and also, as you just outlined, those people who are in hospital, sadly, are sometimes getting iller because they are in there. There's a real urgency to…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thanks. Thanks, Chair.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
I just wondered, Minister, what your biggest concern is with the Bill?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Okay. Thanks, Chair.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
And the final point on this, Chair, in relation to this, is that concerns have been raised that what we may see is just labour market displacement, so just movement within a very similar group of people, so social care workers perhaps moving to be PAs. Do you…
