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Sam RowlandsCeidwadwyr

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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Yes, perhaps before somebody else does come in, perhaps I can understand also the trend in regard to that avoidable harm. So, perhaps, in your analysis over recent years, has that trend got into a worse place or are things getting better—what's that situation looking like?

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Jason Killens

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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Thank you. Andy may want to comment on this too, but I'll refer you here to some work that the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives did. So, that's a membership organisation of the 10 ambulance services in England and those in the three devolved nations across the UK. They did some analysis…

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Sam RowlandsCeidwadwyr

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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…patient safety. So, I'm just interested to understand your analysis as to the extent to which those ambulance delays—those long delays—are compromising patient safety and what evidence you may have that there are deaths as a result of those delays.

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Russell GeorgeCeidwadwyr

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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Thank you, Jason. I know that Members have got some questions about patient flow. Sam Rowlands.

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Jason Killens

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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…also apologise to your other constituent, and, indeed, anyone else who has had to either wait for their ambulance to arrive or has then subsequently been waiting in the back of an ambulance before being admitted to the emergency department? And it's that point, I think, that it's worth just…

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Mabon ap GwynforPlaid

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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Diolch. Dwi'n mynd i ofyn cwestiwn yn Gymraeg. Dwi wedi cael sgwrs efo chi, Jason Killens, o'r blaen, ac yn ddiolchgar iawn am y sgyrsiau rŷn ni wedi'u cael. A dwi'n derbyn beth rŷch chi'n dweud yn fanna ynghylch eich bod chi o'r farn nad oes yna argyfwng yn y gwasanaeth ambiwlans, ac mae'ch atebion…

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Russell GeorgeCeidwadwyr

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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Thank you. There's quite a bit that's been said that I won't dig into further, because I know other Members want to pick up on some of what's been said. So, I'll move on to the next set of questions now, which are from Sam Rowlands.

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Andy Swinburn

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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…the nature of the way patients present to us through the 999 system has changed. Traditionally, the ambulance service only dealt with people with life-threatening or limb-threatening emergencies, and that simply isn't the case anymore; that is a small fraction of the presentations that come through…

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Colin Dennis

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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…is around upskilling the workforce, which actually touches the community. So, whereas, historically, ambulance services were very much conveyancing organisations, just collecting patients and taking them to hospital, the level of training that is now being given to ambulance crews is remarkably…

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Russell GeorgeCeidwadwyr

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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Thank you, Mr Dennis. In your answer there, you referred to the, I suppose, transition from being a transportation service to being an out-of-hospital provider. Can you, perhaps, tell us a little bit more about how that transition is taking place and how that's progressing?

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Colin Dennis

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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Okay, perfect. Well, perhaps if I can just address the first question first, and then come to your second one about whether the ambulance service in crisis, I would just like to say that I think, from a board perspective, we can demonstrate financially it's very much under control, providing a…

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Russell GeorgeCeidwadwyr

15 Mai 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

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…the question perhaps I'd ask you, Mr Dennis, as the chair, is: can the public confidently rely on the ambulance service to provide timely care that meets the needs of patients and their families across Wales?

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