, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
It's just a really quick question.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Yes, because sometimes, with all due respect to some health boards, if you want the best service you have to travel for it, don't you? Even though not every health board has it and, say, Cardiff and the Vale do, but Swansea don't or Aneurin Bevan don't, if…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5
Just on the weight management services for young people and children, you say there are only three or potentially four health boards across the country that do that. The ones who don't, do they procure the service from other health boards? Do they send…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
The Audit Wales report makes 10 clear recommendations, and they must be implemented in full, but that is just the start. Here's what the Welsh Conservatives would implement to fix cancer care and fix our NHS. We would have a long-term cancer strategy. The…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
Diolch, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I move the motion tabled in the name of my colleague, Paul Davies. Cancer doesn't wait, and neither should we. Yet, for far too long, Wales has failed to deliver timely, life-saving cancer care that our constituents…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Access to Primary and Community Care Services
I would like to thank the Cabinet Secretary for his statement today, and I'd also like to add my thanks to all those people working in community and primary care, right the way across Wales. Just to pick up, Cabinet Secretary, on the £5 million of recurring…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Cabinet Secretary—. Trefnydd, I'd like to have a—. I can't get my words out. I'd like to have a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for economy over the President of the United States coming in, Donald Trump, and about…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you, Counsel General, for your answer. As you just highlighted, £450,000 was provided to family drug and alcohol courts across Wales. The evaluation that was conducted by CASCADE at Cardiff University indicated positive outcomes, suggesting that FDACs…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
1. What support does the Welsh Government provide for family drug and alcohol courts? OQ62147
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
I'll write to you about it.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
It is. It's just about capital investment in hospitals. I've been contacted by leagues of friends and different things from a number of hospitals. They've got a lot of money to spend in hospitals, but they keep getting pushback from, say, the estate…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Thank you.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
This is my final question, Chair, if that's okay. I'm just wondering, generally, across Government, how concerned the Welsh Government are about having the two-tiered health system here in Wales—those who are able to pay to go private, not using the NHS and…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
On waiting times generally, we know that the NHS does use private sector involvement, sometimes, to get waiting lists down. I'm just interested in the draft budget what the breakdown and proportion of the spend is going to be in the MEG to use private sector…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
What if the system doesn't start delivering on those—? Like you say, theatre optimisation, doing things differently, shift patterns. If health boards are, say, reluctant to do some of that, what power do you have then to say, 'Well, you're going to do this…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
So, funding for the recovery, it is conditional, isn't it, some of the money you're putting in to reduce the longest waits. I'm interested in what enforceable consequences there are for health boards that don't get rid of those long waits. So, you've put that…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
I'm interested in that money. Everybody talks about the waiting times, don't they, in orthopaedic care and also for cancers; they’re the big areas. But there are also other areas I'd touch on—fertility, for example. There are long waits on fertility…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
The most recent. The £50 million.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
The funding you provided to reduce waiting times.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Diolch. Cabinet Secretary, I just want to talk about waiting times, if I can. There has been an increase in funding provided by the Welsh Government to address waiting times. However they've not decreased across certain disciplines, such as fertility…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Right. I've one very quick question, Chair, and it's on workforce again. A survey that was done showed that only 35 per cent of social care staff are content with how much they're getting paid, with 25 per cent of social care staff thinking of leaving the…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
How long is 'shortly'?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Okay. I'll move on to staffing now, Minister. One of the things we all know is that there's a lack of social care staff across Wales, but actually the data that we can have to look at the vacancies within social care across Wales is patchy, to say the least…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
How does it directly correlate to the thinking within your department, though, about how you deliver social care and the funding for social care in rural areas? Now, it was funded through the RSG, but I'm just interested in how you, in your directorate, focus…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
I could be.
