Meetings
Inquiry into measles outbreak 2013
This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.
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Meeting: 21/11/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)
3 Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services - measles single vaccine provider
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Minutes:
3b.1 The Committee noted the letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services in relation to measles single vaccine providers.
Meeting: 23/10/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 7)
7 Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services: health protection and immunisation budget
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Minutes:
7a.1 The Committee noted the letter from the Minister for
Health and Social Services regarding the health protection and immunisation
budget.
Meeting: 25/09/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)
3 Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services: Measles outbreak 2013
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Minutes:
3d.1 The Committee noted the letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services.
3d.2 The Committee agreed to write to the Minister for Health and Social Services to ask:
· what impact the reduction of £1.9million to the health protection and immunisation budget, as reported by the Wales Audit Office’s Health Finances 2012-13 and beyond [page 16], has had; and
· where provision of funding to deal with the recent measles outbreak was sourced, and whether the saving of £1.9million stood at the year end.
Meeting: 25/09/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)
3 Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services: Response to the Committee's Inquiry into the measles outbreak 2013
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Minutes:
3e.1 The Committee noted the letter from the Minister for
Health and Social Services.
Meeting: 18/07/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 7)
Inquiry into measles outbreak 2013 - Consideration of key themes
Minutes:
7.1 The Committee considered the key themes of the inquiry.
Meeting: 10/07/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4)
4 Evidence on the role of the media
HSC(4)-24-13 paper 5
Dr Andy
Williams, Cardiff School of Journalism
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Minutes:
4.2 Dr Andy Williams responded to questions from members of
the Committee.
4.3 Dr Williams agreed to provide a copy of the guidelines for journalists produced by the Science Media Centre.
Meeting: 10/07/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4)
4 Evidence from Sense and UCL Institute of Child Health
HSC(4)-24-13 paper 6 : Sense
Nick Morris, Policy &
Campaigns Officer (Cymru), Sense
Joff McGill, Director of Information,
Advice, and Research and lead on immunisation and rubella, Sense
HSC(4)-24-13 paper 7 : UCL Institute of Child Health
Dr Helen
Bedford, Senior Lecturer in Children’s Health
Supporting documents:
- Paper 6, item 4 PDF 146 KB View as HTML (4/1) 57 KB
- Paper 7, item 4 PDF 296 KB View as HTML (4/2) 74 KB
Minutes:
4.4 The witnesses responded to questions from members of the
Committee.
Meeting: 10/07/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 5)
5 Inquiry into measles outbreak 2013 - Evidence from RCN Wales
HSC(4)-24-13 paper 11
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Minutes:
5.4 The Committee noted the paper.
Meeting: 10/07/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 5)
5 Inquiry into measles outbreak 2013 - Written evidence from BMA Cymru Wales
HSC(4)-24-13 paper 10
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Minutes:
5.3 The Committee noted the paper.
Meeting: 10/07/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4)
4 Evidence from the Welsh Government
HSC(4)-24-13 paper 9
Mark
Drakeford AM, Minister for Health and Social Services
Dr Ruth
Hussey, Chief Medical Officer
Andrew Riley, Senior Medical
Officer
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Minutes:
4.7 The Minister and Dr Hussey responded to questions from members of the Committee.
4.8 Dr Hussey agreed to provide clarification on the difference between the figures provided by the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales in their written evidence on the national catch-up campaign in 2005. Dr Hussey also agreed to confirm whether the letter issued from the Welsh Government to health boards in 2009 encouraging compliance with the Welsh Health Circular 2005 was generic or geographically specific.
Meeting: 10/07/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4)
4 Evidence from Public Health Wales
HSC(4)-24-13 paper 8
Dr Marion Lyons, Director of
Health Protection
Dr Brendan Mason, Regional
Epidemiologist
Dr Richard Roberts, Head, Vaccine
Preventable Disease Programme
Dr Quentin Sandifer, Executive
Director of Public Health Services
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Minutes:
4.5 The witnesses responded to questions from members of the Committee.
4.6 Dr Sandifer agreed to provide details of the number of MMR vaccinations administered in the Swansea area following the national campaign to raise uptake in 2005-6.
Meeting: 10/07/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4)
4 Evidence from Local Health Boards and Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
HSC(4)-24-13 paper 1 : Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board
HSC(4)-24-13 paper 2 : Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
HSC(4)-24-13 paper 3 : Aneurin Bevan Health Board
HSC(4)-24-13 paper 4 : Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
Dr Sara Hayes, Director of Public Health, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board
Dr Ian Millington, Medical Secretary of Abertawe Bro Morgannwg Local Medical Committee
Andrew Jones, Director of Public Health, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Dr Gillian Richardson, Director of Public Health, Aneurin Bevan Health Board
John Burge, Principal School’s Governance Officer, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
Supporting documents:
- Paper 1, item 4 PDF 1 MB View as HTML (4/1) 128 KB
- Paper 2, item 4 PDF 569 KB
- Paper 3, item 4 PDF 2 MB
- Paper 4, item 4 PDF 71 KB View as HTML (4/4) 29 KB
Minutes:
4.1 The witnesses responded to questions from members of the
Committee.
Meeting: 10/07/2013 - Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4)
4 Inquiry into measles outbreak 2013 - oral evidence
Supporting documents:
- Research Service brief