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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
GPs provide, obviously, an absolutely fundamental service to people in Wales and are most people's experience of the NHS for most of their life. And since I've come into post, I've met a number of GPs to talk about the experience of general practice and the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
We introduced legislation in 2023 to underpin a new unified contract for GPs, which was the biggest change to GP contracts since 2004. The new contract makes clear what services every GP in Wales must provide, supporting improved care. Embedding this new…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, I thank Joyce Watson for that. I think she is right to say that people do become understandably anxious in the context of potential changes to stroke services. I think she is right to say there are—. I've always thought, in my mind, there are three…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
As I understand the situation, the health board hasn’t taken any decision on this issue, and there will be a consultation before any change is made to stroke services. As the Member knows, the medical consensus, for a very long period of time, has been that…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
A great deal of work is being undertaken across Wales to improve equitable access to stroke services and outcomes for people following a stroke. The expectations set out in our stroke quality statement set this work out.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The former. The former.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, the Member makes an important point. One of the important roles that regional partnership boards are tasked with delivering is to ensure that deeper collaboration and to use the funding in a variety of ways—we provide a range of different streams of…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Regional partnership boards and the £0.25 billion pound investment in them are supporting collaboration and integration between health and social care partners. The work of the care action committee, supported by an additional £19 million this winter, has…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, I would associate myself with the first part of the Member's question in identifying the concerns. I haven't yet had an opportunity to read the report to which he refers, and I would be very happy to do that and to discuss its contents with my Cabinet…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I'm really grateful to Sioned Williams for raising this in the Chamber. I absolutely recognise the point that she makes about mental health challenges, but suicide is a particular challenge for young LGBTQ+ individuals. And, as she has acknowledged in her…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
We recently consulted on our draft all-age mental health and well-being strategy, which sets out our priorities for the next 10 years. This includes a focus on the early years and the mental health of young people through prevention and early intervention. We…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I thank Carolyn Thomas for that, and she makes an important point about the range of providers making a real contribution to the lives of young people and others from the perspective of ND services more generally. And I absolutely recognise that a number are…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I thank Sam Rowlands for that question. I think the source of the information that he refers to was the evidence that my colleague Sarah Murphy gave in committee last week. The point that she was making, I thought very transparently and very openly in that…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I thank Hefin David for that supplementary. The ALN legislative review, which my Cabinet colleague the Cabinet Secretary for Education is taking forward, as I understand it, is focused mainly on the clarity and accessibility of the legislative framework…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The Welsh Government is committed to ensuring accessible services and effective support for autistic people and their families. Through the neurodivergence improvement programme and the national neurodivergence team, we continue to provide support and drive…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, I think he makes an important point about the importance of data and reliable data in all parts of the health service, actually. I would go further: I would say the availability of data is critical. My own view about data across the system is that the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The Member makes, in this question, an important point about the importance of setting targets for the system to enable the system to deliver the outcomes that we expect and that the people of Wales expect. So, he will have seen, I’m sure, in the planning…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The report, I remember, followed a statement that I had made in the Chamber and a speech that I gave to the NHS Confederation, which found many echoes in the report that Plaid Cymru published two weeks later. And I was very pleased to see that the kind of…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
There has been an increase in recruitment to the NHS across all disciplines and all important roles that enable the NHS to be effectively run. He has acknowledged several times in his question so far the sharp increase in recruitment of front-line staff. The…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The Member makes an easy point, and a populist point, but the truth is that a complex healthcare system requires people who are competent to run the healthcare system, and that is a skill—[Interruption.]—and that is a skill in itself. The level of recruitment…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
—so I think it's important to acknowledge the scale of recruitment into cancer services. That is important. The Member is not right to say it isn't doing anything. There's a sharp increase in the number of referrals into cancer pathways. And it is true to say…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, the Member starts by telling us how much more recruitment there has been into cancer services—
