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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Diolch, Llywydd. I'd like to formally move the amendments tabled in the name of my colleague Darren Millar. I'd like to thank Helen Mary Jones for being able to agree and disagree with her so well in the health portfolio over the last few years—I shall miss you. And welcome back, Rhun. It is groundhog day, but good to see you. And, of course, it is groundhog day in many other ways, and I do...
Angela Burns: Will you take an intervention?
Angela Burns: Just before you decide to try to elucidate us on what you think I might say, I'd be delighted—. When we speak about amendment 3, I will be telling you exactly why we have removed that and substituted it with two others, and I hope that that will answer your concerns.
Angela Burns: Thank you very much indeed, Minister. To be honest, you've answered most of the questions I was going to ask. I met the Secretary of State last week and he was very clear that there was big joint working going on and that it was going very well. My only question would be: does Wales have any emergency treatment centre planning in place, in case we get to a situation where this does develop...
Angela Burns: Thank you for that answer, First Minister. And, undoubtedly, Wales has led the UK in banning smoking in public places, which is very welcome. However, 13 years on, latest figures still show that we're failing to address smoking in young people and expectant mothers. Across Wales, 9 per cent of 15 to 16-year-olds smoke, and 30 per cent of teenage mums smoke. Thirty per cent of mums aged...
Angela Burns: 1. Will the First Minister outline the Welsh Government's plans to reduce the number of people smoking in Wales? OAQ55018
Angela Burns: I'm very grateful, Minister, for the briefings that have been provided on this report, although I think that we must remember—and, once again, I wish to extend my deepest, deepest sympathies to all of those affected—the distress at the failings the maternity services in Cwm Taf have brought to many, many parents and at a time when it should have been one of the most joyful times of their...
Angela Burns: Well, First Minister, as you know, recent weeks have brought to the fore the current pressures that are facing the Welsh NHS—'winter pressures', as we like to term them, though the reality is that they are there for most of the year. Now, in the words of Dr Phil Banfield, the British Medical Association Cymru Wales consultant committee chair, he said 'It is clear from the latest...
Angela Burns: 1. Will the First Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government's priorities for improving the health service over the coming year? OAQ54972
Angela Burns: Thank you for that and, of course, I heard the response you gave to the Member for Arfon when she raised a very similar question earlier on, but I just want to talk about gaps in the diagnostic workforce. And if I was to take an example, such as histopathologists, since the new junior doctor contract was introduced in England in 2016, a significant difference between the pay given to trainees...
Angela Burns: You mentioned the transformation fund, Minister, and the delayed discharges into community settings. One of the barriers is still around the whole area of funding, particularly if a person requires funding from both the health service and from the social services because of the mixed care package that they require. Quite often, there are—a kind way, perhaps, to describe it—marginal turf...
Angela Burns: Minister, I wonder if you could tell or confirm to us what formal arrangements you have in place for monitoring and evaluating the value for money of the twenty-first century schools programme deliveries, whether it's Carmarthenshire or throughout Wales.
