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(09.00) |
Introductions, apologies and substitutions Supporting documents:
Minutes: 1.1
Apologies were received from Janet Finch-Saunders. 1.2
Apologies were received from Kirsty Williams. For items relating to the Safe Nurse
Staffing Levels (Wales) Bill, Peter Black substituted for Kirsty Williams. 1.3
The Chair noted the Committee’s best wishes to Kirsty Williams, who was unable
to attend the meeting due to illness. The Committee agreed to identify an
alternative date for Kirsty Williams to give evidence as Member in charge of
the Safe Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Bill. |
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(09.00 - 09.45) |
Safe Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Bill: evidence session 12 Dr
Jean White, Chief Nursing Officer Fiona
Davies, Lawyer Helen
Whyley, Nursing Officer Supporting documents: Minutes: 2.1
The witnesses responded to questions from Members. |
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(09.45 - 10.45) |
Safe Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Bill: evidence session 13 Mark
Drakeford AM, Minister for Health and Social Services Dr
Jean White, Chief Nursing Officer Fiona
Davies, Lawyer Supporting documents:
Minutes: 3.1
The witnesses responded to questions from Members. 3.2
The Minister agreed to provide the Committee with a note on his powers of
direction under Section 12 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006. |
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(10.45) |
Motion under Standing Orders 17.42(vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 5, 6 and 11 of the meeting Minutes: 4.1
The motion was agreed. |
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(10.45 - 11.00) |
Safe Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Bill: consideration of evidence received Minutes: 5.1 The Committee considered
the evidence received. 5.2 The Committee agreed to
seek additional information from local health boards about the arrangements
they have in place to manage care they commission from the independent sector
and/or from other administrations (e.g. NHS England), particularly: ·
whether
standard contracts are used for such arrangements; ·
how
health boards monitor compliance with the contracts/agreements that are in
place for the delivery of care they have commissioned. 5.3
The Committee agreed to seek additional information from the Welsh Independent
Healthcare Association about: ·
its
comment in written evidence that “it is important that should the
Bill be extended that it will include all of the Independent Sector not just
NHS funded care within the Sector”; and ·
whether the industry adheres to any
staffing ratios at the moment and, if so, what those ratios are, to what extent
compliance is monitored and by whom, and what the rates of compliance are. |
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(11.00 - 11.20) |
The Committee's forward work programme Supporting documents:
Minutes: 6.1
The Members discussed the forward work programme. 6.2
The Committee agreed to schedule further evidence sessions on the Safe Nurse
Staffing (Wales) Bill, including a session with Kirsty Williams the Member in
charge of the Bill, on 19 March 2015. 6.3
The Committee agreed its approach to gathering oral evidence in relation to
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Bill. 6.4
The Committee noted the outline forward work programme from April to July 2015,
subject to further discussion of a request from the Minister for Health and
Social Services to defer the summer general and financial scrutiny session to
later in the year. 6.5
Members noted the outline work programme for the remainder of the Fourth
Assembly, and agreed to defer a decision on their previously identified
priorities. |
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(13.00 - 13.40) |
Inquiry into the performance of Ambulance Services in Wales: evidence session 1 Stephen
Harrhy, Chief Ambulance Services Commissioner Professor Siobhan McClelland, Chair – Emergency Ambulance Services Committee Supporting documents:
Minutes: 7.1
The witnesses responded to questions from Members. 7.2
The witnesses agreed to provide the Committee with the following: ·
a
copy of the interim agreement with the
Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust for 2014-15; ·
an
indication of the timescales for the Commissioning Quality and Delivery Framework
and, once finalised, a copy of the Framework. |
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(13.40 - 14.20) |
Inquiry into the performance of Ambulance Services in Wales: evidence session 2 Mick
Giannasi, Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust Tracy
Myhill, Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust Supporting documents: Minutes: 8.1
The witnesses responded to questions from Members. 8.2
The witnesses agreed to provide the Committee with: ·
details
of the pilot schemes underway across Wales to improve ambulance services; ·
the
number of Category A emergency calls made in 2012, 2013 and 2014, the number of
incidents to which those calls relate, the number which resulted in an
emergency response arriving at the scene, and the number which resulted in an
emergency response arriving at the scene within eight minutes; ·
the
dates on which the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust was consulted or involved
in the decision to suspend consultant-led maternity care at Glan Clwyd
Hospital; and ·
a
copy of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust improvement action plan for the
next year. |
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(14.30 - 15.10) |
Inquiry into the performance of Ambulance Services in Wales: evidence session 3 Adam
Cairns, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Alison Williams, Cwm Taf University Health Board Minutes: 9.1
The witnesses responded to questions from Members. 9.2
The witnesses agreed to provide the Committee with: ·
details
for the last month (February 2015) of the number of ambulances that arrived at
each Accident and Emergency department in the Cardiff and Vale University
Health Board and Cwm Taf University Health Board areas, and, if possible, the
ambulance station at which each of those ambulances is based; ·
details
of the numbers of patients experiencing handover delays in the Cardiff and Vale
University Health Board area; ·
details
of the actions that Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Cwm Taf
University Health Board are taking to reduce patient handover delays, the
improvements that are expected to be achieved, and the associated timescales;
and ·
a
copy of the report of the investigation into unscheduled care experiences at
each local health board, anticipated to be published in April 2015. |
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(15.10) |
Papers to note |
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Correspondence from the Petitions Committee: P-04-625 Support for Safe Nursing Staffing Levels (Wales) Bill Supporting documents: Minutes: 10.1a
The Committee noted the correspondence. |
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Safe Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Bill: Summary of evidence received from the Royal College of Nursing campaign Supporting documents:
Minutes: 10.2a
The Committee noted the summary of evidence. |
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(15.10 - 15.20) |
Inquiry into the performance of Ambulance Services in Wales: consideration of evidence received Minutes: 11.1
The Committee considered the evidence received and agreed to write to the Deputy
Minister for Health. |