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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
The last point, quickly: do you think that the Government has a strategy that is effective and works in this area?
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Could one of you tackle this issue of the silo-based approach, that we treat people in silos and look at one element only, without looking at everything else that is related to the condition or the individual? If we could tackle that first.
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
That's amazing, because this committee has just published a report on chronic conditions that says the exact same thing, so there is consistency, at least, in the messaging in terms of health policy. Following on from that report, one thing I wanted to touch…
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
That has answered several questions—so, excellent. You may not have the answers, but are there enough of you to do this? How many more are needed? What's the investment that's needed for us to have more of the two of you out there in our communities?
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Mae hyn yn clymu i mewn i iechyd meddwl, yr hyn dŷch chi'n sôn amdano, a sut mae'n effeithio ar iechyd meddwl. Dŷn ni wedi cyffwrdd ar gyswllt person efo meddyg teulu fel pwynt cyswllt cyntaf. Ydych chi'n meddwl bod yna ddigon o ddealltwriaeth yn y gymuned…
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Thank you. Before we go on to those points, we hear a lot of messaging in the political media at the moment about how people have to take responsibility for themselves and that the NHS's problems lie on the shoulders of these people who don't take…
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Thank you. I'm going to ask in Welsh. You mentioned in your opening remarks the links that you see between the psychology of people who are suffering from trauma and eating disorders, for example, talking about bullying and such examples. There's a lot of…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Speech and language therapists
I think you make a fair point on assurances over funding. Your party's in Government in the UK now, so they can give those assurances, and they can make sure that we get the proper funding. So, will you be making the overtures to Keir Starmer in that regard?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Speech and language therapists
Will you take an intervention on that?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Speech and language therapists
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. I'd like to thank Mark Isherwood for bringing forward this debate today, and I commend him for his passionate advocacy for this particular cause over the years. As we've already heard over the course of this debate, demand for…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
I appreciate the work that's been going on with the new Velindre, and it is important for us to have a world-class centre, but with it being a stand-alone hospital, do you not think that this is a missed opportunity to have a co-located new cancer centre?…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. As I’ve mentioned many times, like many of you here today, any debate about cancer is one that's very close to my heart. 'I have skin in the game', as the proverb says, because my father continues to live with cancer…
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Debate: Natural Resources Wales's 'Case for Change'
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you very much to everyone for their contributions to this important debate this afternoon. A particular thanks to Sam for co-sponsoring the motion and for speaking so eloquently. We're all aware of the work that…
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Debate: Natural Resources Wales's 'Case for Change'
The motion before us today is quite simple in essence. All it calls for is for Natural Resources Wales to proactively engage with communities and local organisations in order to speed up the process of ensuring the preservation of the centres in Coed y…
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Debate: Natural Resources Wales's 'Case for Change'
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd, and I'd like to begin by thanking the Business Committee for giving the time to debate this issue today. Also, could I wish the Deputy First Minister a 'happy birthday'?
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Access to Primary and Community Care Services
Primary care is responsible for over 90 per cent of patient contacts with the health system, yet it continues to be underfunded, and the percentage of funding that goes to primary care has shrunk significantly over the past 20 years. As I’ve mentioned several…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Can I ask for two statements, please? First of all, can I ask for a statement from the Counsel General on the Government's preparedness for the likely impact of Kim Leadbeater MP's private Member's Bill on terminally ill adults on Wales? The Bill, if passed…
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Okay. Thank you. That's it from me. Thank you.
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Just very briefly. A clarification, please, to go back a step. You talked about agency costs; you said that they'd halved. The latest public figures that we have show that they've gone down a third since 2022-23, from £325 million down to £262 million in…
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Thank you.
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
On one point in particular, if I may, please. You said that the Grange, under the Aneurin Bevan health board, was in special measures for A&E, I think you said, or the emergency department. How is it possible for a new hospital that's been made and prepared…
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
There we go. Thank you.
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
So, if I may, just to get further clarification on this, this is a live discussion and no decision has yet been made.
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
If I could ask two further questions. Can we therefore expect to see a budget for digitisation on every element of the digitisation that's happening? Because there are many software programmes, et cetera, being developed. Are we seeing that headline digital…
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
That's promising, and that's encouraging to hear, but of course, part of the capital investment goes to the estate, but another goes to diagnostic equipment. The area that we're most behind with is the digitalisation, and that digital element in order to…
