Angela Burns: The size of the board's estate is massive. It covers three district hospitals, 22 other community and acute hospitals, 19 medical centres and 121 GP practices. And, as I've known when I've driven up there, it's in a geographically pretty diverse area and it can take literally hours to get from one side to the other. However, we should also remind ourselves that, while recognising the...
Angela Burns: Will you take an intervention?
Angela Burns: Thank you very much for taking the intervention. I'd like to assure the Member for Ynys Môn that we, the Welsh Conservatives, will be supporting your amendment, because you make a very valid point in it.
Angela Burns: 4. Will the First Minister make a statement on plans to promote openness and transparency within the Welsh Government? OAQ51403
Angela Burns: Thank you, First Minister. As you will be aware, the last few months have seen some pretty torrid times in politics, and I think the esteem in which we are held is suffering. I think the Welsh public will expect us to be far more open and transparent going forward. I have recently received an answer to a written question from the Cabinet Secretary for health and well-being that contradicts an...
Angela Burns: Cabinet Secretary, I welcome the involvement of the standing committees in the way that the scrutiny of the Welsh Government budget is conducted, although it has to be said that following the money has proven, as ever, a challenge, as moneys have been moving around budget allocations, and have, in some instances, made direct year-on-year comparisons extremely difficult. I do want to make it...
Angela Burns: Thank you very much, Cabinet Secretary. I absolutely accept the premise that you've just outlined but this is why we have to look at some way of getting some pump-priming. Because if we can actually get those local community services to work and work well—places like Argyle Street; I'm sure it's replicated across Wales—then the public will have much more confidence that they do not need...
Angela Burns: Will the First Minister provide an update on how the Welsh Government intends to resource identified transformational change within the public sector?
Angela Burns: First Minister, I listened to your initial answer to John Griffiths. I absolutely accept, and it was very clear during the public health Bill process, that Ministers are acutely aware of the need to improve our health and well-being by using sport and leisure. However, there is still a woeful level of interaction between those who are responsible for the commissioning of sport and leisure in...
Angela Burns: 3. Will you provide an update on when the additional learning needs code will be published? OAQ51471
Angela Burns: Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on guidance issued for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence?
Angela Burns: Cabinet Secretary, thank you. I welcome the passing of Stage 4 of the additional learning needs Bill yesterday, and noted with interest the statement you issued earlier this week on implementing the new code. However, I would like clarity on the advice that you are providing to local education authorities as to the interim measures that are in place now that the Bill has been passed. I've...
Angela Burns: This is a horrific story: a 10 per cent failure rate on average throughout the UK, and, my understanding is, throughout the world. One of the things that really concerns me is that these devices were allowed to be used because, although they had not been tested, they had gone through the medical devices process, under some sort of guidance-like similarity. I just wonder, Cabinet Secretary,...
Angela Burns: Diolch, Presiding Officer. Cabinet Secretary, in 2009, the Welsh Government supported the national inflammatory bowel disease standards, which recommended a minimum of one and a half whole, or full-time equivalent, inflammatory bowel disease nurses per 250,000 of the population. Could you please tell me how you're getting on in meeting this target?
Angela Burns: Well, if nothing else, I praise you for your honesty. Now, according to figures obtained from Crohn's & Colitis UK, in 2016, there were only 16 full-time equivalent specialist IBD nurses working across Wales. My own health board of Hywel Dda only has one IBD nurse and Betsi Cadwaladr has only got two and they have to cover a vast region. What are you going to be able to do to address this...
Angela Burns: Thank you for that. I think it's really important, because you as a Government have agreed to meet a certain set of standards and, some years on—let's be frank, it's eight years on—those standards are nowhere near being met. Rather than having 16 full-time nurses, we should actually have 30 of those full-time nurses. Inflammatory bowel disease is a horrible set of conditions. It taxes...
Angela Burns: Will the First Minister outline the statutory processes that must be followed when public service organisations are subject to Welsh Government oversight actions?
Angela Burns: Good afternoon, leader of the house, and may I wish you and all my colleagues here a very happy new year? I hope that 2018 brings us all a measure of health and peace. I do welcome your largesse in offering to bring forward, on behalf of the Government, a debate on the NHS, but I did pick out that you said 'in general'. And I would like very much to ask you to ask the Cabinet Secretary for...
Angela Burns: Minister, I'd like to thank you very much for your statement today, and for the courtesy you have extended to both myself and my colleague, Darren Millar, who is unfortunately unable to be with us today, in going through your plans and your rationale behind the consultation. You will be aware that the Welsh Conservatives are a broad church that actually reflects the opinions, concerns and...
Angela Burns: 5. What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the number of businesses adversely affected by force majeure? OAQ51502
