Emergency care and ambulances

Alun DaviesLabour

10 January 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures

I'm grateful to the Minister for her full statement this afternoon. I think all of us, on all sides of the Chamber and whatever our political differences may be, have a great well of gratitude to everybody who's working in the current circumstances across the national health service and in local…

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Eluned MorganLabour

10 January 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures

…so that will divert more people out of those normal hours. Certainly, what I was hearing from people in A&E last week is that, actually, the difficult time is when everything else is shut. So, opening those primary care centres for longer hours would be important. The same thing in relation to…

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Rhun ap IorwerthPlaid

10 January 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures

…preventative and to take pressure off our health service in that way? And finally, Llywydd, although winter pressures is the subject of this statement today, we now know, don't we, that there are pressures throughout the year; that's the case now. We must ensure that there is scope within the health…

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Rhun ap IorwerthPlaid

10 January 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures

…but it's her job to create that capacity. What we need is a more ambitious plan, frankly, to speed up patient flow through the health and care system. She mentioned today the creation of 500 extra community beds. That's positive, but we've lost thousands of beds. I wrote to her some weeks ago…

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Rhun ap IorwerthPlaid

10 January 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures

A very happy new year to you all. Clearly, it hasn't been a good start to the year for the NHS. I can only thank the staff for their work in circumstances that are becoming more and more impossible.

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Eluned MorganLabour

10 January 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures

…of the people who call to emergency services. Just imagine how many of them would have gone directly to A&E before. We have urgent primary care centres across the whole of Wales, we have same-day emergency care centres, we have pharmacies and we have—. And we've done this week after week. Every…

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Russell GeorgeConservative

10 January 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures

…regard, why didn't you fix the roof whilst the sun was shining? Minister, you claim that planning for winter pressures started in—[Interruption.] I can hear the First Minister talking away. It was the First Minister in his statement yesterday to the press who told us that the first 10 years of…

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Eluned MorganLabour

10 January 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures

…the situation would be a great deal worse. Thanks to early investment made available in June, the Welsh ambulance service has been able to deliver a range of actions to increase capacity ahead of the winter. This includes recruitment of 100 additional front-line staff, who will be responding to…

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Eluned MorganLabour

10 January 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures

Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. Thank you for the opportunity to update Members on NHS winter pressures. Members will appreciate this winter is proving to be particularly challenging for health and care services across the United Kingdom. This is our third winter of living with COVID. While we knew…

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Y Llywydd / The Llywydd

10 January 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures

The next item, therefore, is item 3. That's a statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services on winter pressures on the NHS, and I call on the Minister to make her statement—Eluned Morgan.

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Lesley GriffithsLabour

10 January 2023, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

Diolch, Llywydd. There is one change to this week's business. I have extended the time allocated to the statement on NHS winter pressures to 45 minutes. Draft business for the next three weeks is set out on the business statement and announcement, which can be found among the meeting papers…

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Mark DrakefordLabour

10 January 2023, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…that lies behind the health service—I don't think that that is going to help anyone who drives an ambulance or anyone who is waiting for treatment in north Wales.

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