, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Lovely. Before I move on to staff, I just want to touch on—. You mentioned the 22 local authorities and that there shouldn't be 22 different ways of doing things differently, but sometimes there are. Rural councils have individual issues, don't they, with…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
That was very comprehensive. Thank you very much, Albert. You did mention, Cabinet Secretary, the link with local government, and it is intrinsically linked together, between health and social care and local government. The Association of Directors of Social…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
The national care service.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Thank you. My questions will be to the Minister for Social Services, to give you a rest, Jeremy, for 10 minutes. Minister, considering the ongoing financial pressures on public services, which were outlined in the Government's draft budget, you talked about…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Just on orthopaedics, if that's okay. So, when the orthopaedics centre is open in Llandudno, and these others across the country, because we know that if you go to a certain doctor's surgery, you've got to go to a certain health board area and that's where…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Yes, okay.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Bigger buying power, yes.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Can I have one more? Just as a point to the Cabinet Secretary, I know health boards have got their own independent commissioning models, but, on the value-for-money element, would it probably be a wider policy matter, more value for money, if the Welsh NHS…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
So, the Welsh NHS executive wouldn't get involved in any of the cost element of how much it costs to do an orthopaedic operation back and forth.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Yes, just out of interest, Cabinet Secretary, because of the way the budget allocations work, I'm just interested because, obviously, the English NHS charge the Welsh NHS for operations. What part does the Welsh NHS executive play in that as well, to make…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
But that's pace, isn't it? These things can be delivered, but there is pace behind how quickly they can be delivered, though, isn't there? With digital services, for example, it's how quick they can be delivered. If there isn't the money in the system to push…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Yes. My interest is on balanced plans. Obviously, that means, sometimes, a reduction in service as well, a reduction in what patients can expect, because if health boards haven't got the money they can't deliver it. And the First Minister's priorities are…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
Do you think that some people who do attend A&E departments, some of these people are also lonely people as well, aren't they? People, if they had better care packages at home, would be able to remain at home, rather than turning up at our A&E departments…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
Jenny, will you take an intervention?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
Diolch, Llywydd. I move the amendment tabled in the name of Paul Davies. I'd like to thank Plaid Cymru for the debate today, and for taking a lot of the ideas from our last manifesto. I was very pleased that you were already looking at what we can do. Before…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: New UK Government's first six months
Thank you. And Natasha Asghar did mention about the betrayal of our pensioners as well—100,000 pensioners in your region alone—and the need for us in Wales to have our own winter fuel payment, so we can support those pensioners who paid into that system their…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: New UK Government's first six months
No, I support the workers; I don't support trade unions who try and hold Government to ransom. [Interruption.] Then we went to Natasha Asghar who told us about the false lines that were fed to us by the UK Government. [Interruption.] I can't even hear myself…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: New UK Government's first six months
Joyce, you'll have to tell your Members to be quiet; I can't hear you.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: New UK Government's first six months
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'd like to thank all Members that took part in this very important Welsh Conservative debate, even though the Cabinet Secretary doesn't think this is a very important debate this afternoon. The debate was opened up by…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
—but I think, honestly, there are too many managers in the NHS.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I am—
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Reliance on agency staff is a problem. A lot of these agency staff are on the front line, and, quite rightly so, the public and I, and I'm sure every Member across this Chamber, hold our NHS front-line staff in the highest regard. But there is becoming an…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
It's not doing anything.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. It’s good you accept the report. It would be good to see you come forward with actually what you’re going to do around those recommendations, because another part that the report highlighted was the severe workforce challenges…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch, Llywydd. Cabinet Secretary, the recent Audit Wales report has laid bare alarming shortcomings in Wales’s cancer services, particularly the lack of clarity and accountability in leadership roles. This failure has caused widespread confusion and…
