<p>Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:42 pm on 13 July 2016.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 2:42, 13 July 2016

Thank you for that response. I’m not quite sure if it’s quite said that there will be a fund introduced as a result of the carers strategy, but I’ll watch out and hope for the best on that for now.

Moving on, some good news from the Princess of Wales Hospital in my region and, indeed, from the Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board as well: as a matter of course, they’re now taking a common-sense approach to the role of carers when consulting, treating and sharing information about patients with dementia. I think it comes to something when carers are being asked routinely to produce copies of powers of attorney before a carer can be given vital information when it’s clear that the patient themselves doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand what they’re being told. Can you give us an indication of the arguments that you’ll be putting to the Cabinet Sectary for health about the rights and responsibilities of carers, which will need to be reflected in the new dementia strategy?