30 September 2026 , Plenary
Short Debate: The importance of local services—Protecting the future of Withybush hospital
Llywydd, I said in this Chamber recently that the true measure of success for this Government is not how many hospital beds we fill, but how many people we help to live healthier lives without needing one. That means investing in prevention, early…
30 September 2026 , Plenary
Short Debate: The importance of local services—Protecting the future of Withybush hospital
Thank you, Llywydd. I welcome the opportunity to respond to this debate, and to acknowledge the strong feelings held by people in Ceredigion Penfro about the future of healthcare services and the role of Withybush Hospital in the future. I wish to start with…
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you very much to Anna Nicholl for that series of hugely important questions when it comes to looking at how we ensure that we create that space to improve leadership. Leadership is at the heart of this new framework. It is one of those things where we…
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you for that. I am disappointed that you're taking this opportunity to make political points on issues that are beyond what we're addressing today. You know full well that the Government can't intervene in the process that is currently ongoing when it…
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Diolch, Louise. Very good points there. You're very, very right, it's a dry document, isn't it, and I think it shows in the numbers present here. It's not, probably, the most exciting thing, but it's one of the foundational pieces of work that we have to get…
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you, Gwyn, for those questions. And I'm always reluctant to tackle any questions that specialist clinicians such as Gwyn, and, indeed, Safa, can ask, so I'm very pleased that we're talking about something more technical here. But the Member is perfectly…
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you for those. You ask what will it do to secure improvements. I've got to just remind you that responsibility and accountability for delivery of day-to-day services is still held by the health boards. I don't personally run the health board or go in…
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you very much, Natasha, for that series of questions.
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you for those questions. They are fair questions. I think when you look at what we are proposing and how we propose to improve outcomes, it states early in the document that the difference between this framework and the previous one is that we have…
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you for those questions.
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
I welcome you to your post and congratulate you on your appointment as shadow spokesperson for health and care. Good luck with it. I thank your predecessor as well for his contributions. I welcome the fact that you see the value of what we've put forward…
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you very much for those comments.
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Importantly, the framework recognises that accountability and support are two sides of the same coin. Organisations must continue to be held accountable for delivering high-quality, safe and sustainable services, but they must also have access to the right…
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
At its heart, the framework establishes a stronger focus on organisational maturity, capability and sustainable improvement. The framework is structured around the core pillars and domain of leadership and organisational effectiveness, quality, delivery and…
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you very much, Llywydd. I'm pleased to provide an update on the commitment in our first 100-day plan to commission a review of the effectiveness of the NHS Wales escalation and intervention framework. The review was commissioned to ensure that our…
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
Diolch. Looking forward to keeping the relationship going.
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
There we go, that's an opportunity for you. If there is a pattern, then it might be escalated.
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
If you're aware of any specific individual instances, then raise them with the GP surgery initially, I would suggest. You can raise it with Llais as well before it then is—
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
For mental health.
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
—a ton load of data. We've got a lot of data. We've got data going back many years. Are we making the best use of that data? That's questionable. So, we want to improve the usage of data.
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
I'll try and give a very succinct answer. We've got—
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
With the cancer strategy, very briefly, we will be looking at that cancer journey: from the prevention, through to the diagnosis, through to treatment, through to living well—those four steps of the cancer journey. Women will be part of that, obviously. But…
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
Yes, I'm extremely frustrated, as I expressed yesterday, by the situation that we are finding in Cwm Taf when it comes to the health visitors. It needs to be resolved; it can't go on. It is an issue of safeguarding for children and young people and their…
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
We're lucky to have Jacqueline, whose expertise is in paediatrics and children's health.
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
If you don't mind, the three of us will respond in part. But you make an important point about how children often get forgotten or fall between a number of gaps in the health system, hence why we are putting together a children's health plan, or children and…
