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Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:24 pm on 15 June 2022.

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Photo of Mike Hedges Mike Hedges Labour 2:24, 15 June 2022

Can I thank the Minister for that response? Too often, the only discussion of social care is about its effect on hospital discharge. It's far more important than that; social care is important not just for hospital discharge, but the quality of life for the people receiving it, and, dare I say, about stopping people having to go into hospital because they've been dealt with in their own homes and they're able to live a good life in their own homes. I think sometimes we seem to think that it's all about health—well, actually, that it's all about hospitals: 'For health, see hospitals; for health and social care, see health.' Does the Minister agree with me that we need to improve retention and recruitment via pay and conditions of employment, and also creating a national wage rate similar to that for nurses?