Motions for debate on 20/06/2018
NDM6733 - Member Debates
Tabled on 24/05/2018 | For debate on 20/06/2018To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes:
a) that 21 June is clean air day;
b) the damaging impact of air pollution on our health - Public Health Wales figures show air pollution causes 2,000 deaths a year which is 6 percent of Wales's total deaths; and
c) that NO2 and particulate matter must both be dealt with in order to combat air pollution.
2. Calls on the Welsh Government to tackle persistent air pollution and introduce clean air zones to change behaviour and improve the health of citizens.
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In point 2, delete ‘and introduce clean air zones to change behaviour and’ and replace with ‘by introducing cleaner transport alternatives and tackling industrial pollution in order to’.
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NDM6743 - Short Debate
Tabled on 13/06/2018 | For debate on 20/06/2018Reason to be human – celebrating world humanist day.
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NDM6745 - Opposition Debate
Tabled on 13/06/2018 | For debate on 20/06/2018To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Recognises the vital contribution made by Wales’s health and social care workforce.
2. Believes that a valued, supported and healthy workforce will be key in driving forward the transformation NHS Wales needs to be sustainable in the future.
3. Calls on the Welsh Government to publish a comprehensive integrated strategy for Wales’s health and social care workforce to ensure our services are able to address future demand for safe and high quality services by January 2019.
4. Calls on the Welsh Government to make NHS Wales an exemplar employer through its support for well-being at work by implementing priority access to treatment for NHS workers and developing robust policies that support the health, well-being and continual professional development of the health and social care workforce.
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Insert as new point 2 and renumber accordingly:
Regrets that, due to the failure of successive Welsh Governments to undertake adequate workforce planning, the NHS in Wales has staff shortages across many specialities, particularly nursing, general practice, emergency medicine, psychiatry, radiology and endoscopy; and that these shortages are putting existing staff under tremendous strain and impacting on patient care.
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In point 4, delete 'implementing priority access to treatment for NHS workers and'.
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Delete points 3 and 4 and replace with:
Welcomes the Welsh Government’s commitment to:
a) publish a comprehensive integrated strategy for Wales’s health and social care workforce in 2019 to ensure our services are able to address future demand for safe and high quality services;
b) make NHS Wales an exemplar employer through its support for well-being at work by developing robust policies that support the health, well-being and continual professional development of the health and social care workforce.
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Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls for the opening of a centre for medical education in Bangor and the expansion of medical education across Wales to ensure every region has the health workforce it requires.
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Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls for future health and social care workforce plans to include robust targets for providing a bilingual workforce and details of how existing NHS staff will be encouraged and supported to learn Welsh.