Angela Burns: I will in a moment, Mick. I will just finish my point. It's not ideologically driven, Rhun ap Iorwerth; it was absolutely necessary. And I would urge the Deputy Minister to talk to the Minister for health and ask him to use his department's proportion of the extra funding in a strategic way to look at where the extra money will make a real difference. Because all too often, this Government...
Angela Burns: And I won't bother to address your intervention because I'm sure you can talk about it in your bit. I do want to address, though, amendments 3 and 4 because, actually, let me be really clear: the reason why we've changed those amendments is because we think that too often there is an artificial barrier between health and social care, and in the same way that there's an artificial barrier...
Angela Burns: Thank you for taking the intervention. Let me be very clear, you say 'regrets that social care services have been under-funded at the expense of the NHS' and I tried to make it quite clear that, in our view, it is about ensuring that NHS, social care, mental health, all of it is seen in the round, and that's what we went on to make in amendment 4; we're trying to strengthen it. It's very...
Angela Burns: The Member for Rhondda rightly raises the amount of, or numbers of, patients that each consultant has to deal with, but, of course, another issue is about the spread of consultants across specialisms. If we're looking to be effective in outcomes and effective in the deployment of money, one of the things we must ensure is that, when a patient comes into hospital, they do not then submit to...
Angela Burns: I'm delighted to be able to support David Melding's Bill. I think that this is very neat, very timely and actually is a small Bill that we could get through the Assembly in double-quick time, because it is so highly focused. I heard what Jenny Rathbone said, and I do agree that there are issues to be overcome, but I also believe that we will only solve the climate crisis by lots of small...
Angela Burns: Will you take an intervention?
Angela Burns: Just to give you some context there, Minister, if I drive an electric vehicle up from Pembrokeshire to Cardiff Bay and then back again, I have to stop at the services on the M4 in order to re-zap myself to continue on my journey home. That charge itself takes half an hour, so it just lengthens the whole process.
Angela Burns: First of all, Minister, I'd like to thank you and Lynne Neagle for all the work that you are doing in this area, because it is vitally important. Lynne touched on a question that I wanted to bring up, about how we are making sure that it gets out to secondary schools and primary schools, because of course one of the big issues I have concerns over is the use of social media and the way that...
Angela Burns: Diolch, Llywydd. Minister, phenylketonuria, which we'll call PKU because it's much easier, is a very rare genetic metabolic disorder that affects around one in 10,000 people in the UK. Patients living with PKU are not able to metabolise phenylalanine, which is an amino acid that's found in the proteins within your brain. And you're born with it, and, as soon as you are born, if you do not...
Angela Burns: Well, thank you for that, because that's actually quite a positive answer. I'm the current chair of the cross-party group on rare and orphan diseases here, and I was actually shocked when I met a whole group of people with PKU, because it's not just—. I think you termed it a 'pretty controlled regime'. Imagine spending your entire life living on soups and shakes, with the added disadvantage...
Angela Burns: Okay. So, I'd like you to work one more miracle, and that's about a drug called Kuvan. Now, Kuvan is to people with PKU what Orkambi is to other people with conditions. Now, we've been waiting for 12 years for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to really get to grips with Kuvan. Earlier this month, Jeremy Hunt, the former health Secretary, called on Matt Hancock, the...
Angela Burns: Llywydd, thank you. I formally move the motion before us, tabled today in the name of the Welsh Conservatives by Darren Millar. You will see that we ask that the Welsh Assembly 'Notes the concerns expressed by patients and clinicians across Wales regarding the performance and future of NHS emergency departments. 'Rejects proposals by Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board which could lead...
Angela Burns: I will in a moment, Jenny. In fact, winter 2019-20 represents the highest number of patients and the result is that patient safety is being compromised, staff morale is at an all-time low. While money for winter pressures, Minister, is welcome, ad hoc cash injections are simply a temporary solution. What the NHS needs is a substantial increase in resources, which should be deployed to ensure...
Angela Burns: Well, you are the First Minister.
Angela Burns: You've cut it year on year and we can give you the statistics, First Minister.
Angela Burns: And, First Minister, you are responsible for the Welsh Labour Government.
Angela Burns: Between—. I'm giving you the years. Between 2010-11 and 2015-16—
Angela Burns: First Minister, you were the special adviser to the—. You are now in Government, you were the health Minister, you were the finance Minister and now you're the First Minister.
Angela Burns: Maybe I should call you First Minister Pontius Pilate. The Welsh Conservatives do recognise that winter pressures are no longer exclusive to winter months. Poor performance is now a year-round reality and whilst there are particular issues experienced in winter, overall performance continues to decline, which in and of itself, Llywydd, must bring a ferocious level of stress and exhaustion...
Angela Burns: Diolch, Llywydd. Good afternoon, Minister.
