, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
Thank you. We'll go to the Members, and I'll start with Shav Taj, please.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
Okay. Thank you very much. Over to you, Audit Wales, for your briefing, please.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
Okay. I'll start with the people in front of me in the room. Starting with Matthew.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
Okay. And we also have a member of Audit Wales online, joining us hybridly. Could you introduce yourself?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
Item 3: Audit Wales briefing on NHS digital transformation. The purpose of this item is so that we can enable the committee to understand Audit Wales's findings in this area ahead of our already agreed inquiry into the NHS digital. We've been joined today by…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Paper to note
Okay. So, item 2, we have a paper to note, which is a follow-up letter from the Chairman of the Finance Committee to all Senedd committee Chairs regarding scrutiny of the Welsh Government draft budget 2027-28. Do any Members have any comments on the paper to…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Fine. Thank you for that, Shav. Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon, everybody. I'd like to welcome Members to the meeting of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee. I'd also like to welcome the Auditor General for Wales, Catherine Mealing-Jones, and her officials to this meeting. The public…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, we just heard questions to the Counsel General about the legal position surrounding health service reconfiguration. Last week, Powys Teaching Health Board decided to press ahead with consultation on proposals that could remove in-patient beds from a…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General
I'd like to thank Jane Dodds for bringing this matter up. Powys is a large and sparsely populated rural county, where removing in-patient provision from community hospitals can mean substantially longer journeys for patients and their families. When a health…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Moving on to item 6, I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix), that the committee resolves to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting. Are the Members content? All are content. We will now proceed in private. Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Okay. Well, thank you, auditor general and your staff, for that briefing. We're going to be discussing the next steps during our private session on this one. As usual, you'll receive a copy of the transcript to check for factual accuracy, and this will be…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Thank you. Anyone else? Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Thank you. Anna Nicholl.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Thank you. Cai Parry-Jones.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Diolch. Shav.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Thank you. Are there questions from Members? Alun Cox.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Thank you for that briefing. Quite a scarily worrying briefing, about £1 billion pounds, and we can't get any measurable outcomes. A quick one from me before I throw the questions open to the floor. You said that the reforms were intended to move away from…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Right, the next item on the agenda is also an Audit Wales brief, this time on additional learning needs, which was published in April of this year, so it predates this Senedd and predates this committee. The purpose of the item is to enable the committee to…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: NHS accounts 2025-26
Effectively nothing, in that case. Thank you, Auditor General, and your staff, for that briefing session. We are taking evidence from the NHS—three bodies—on 12 October as part of our accounts scrutiny work, so that's going to be helpful in informing that…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: NHS accounts 2025-26
Thank you. Just one final question from me before we move on to the next item: if you were us sitting in our seats on 12 October, when we get the three health boards coming in, what are the two or three findings that you'd be least prepared for them to…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: NHS accounts 2025-26
Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: NHS accounts 2025-26
Thank you. Anything else from any of the other Members?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: NHS accounts 2025-26
Andrew R.T. Davies.
