Concise Minutes - Health and Social Care Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid – Committee Room 5, Ty Hywel

and video conference via Zoom

Meeting date: 15 October 2025

Meeting time: 09.30 - 11.32
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15386

Hybrid

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Attendance

Category	Names
Members of the Senedd:	Peter Fox MS (Chair) Sioned Williams MS James Evans MS John Griffiths MS Lesley Griffiths MS Joyce Watson MS
Witnesses:	Jeremy Miles MS, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care Sarah Murphy MS, Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Committee Staff:	Claire Morris (Second Clerk) Karen Williams (Deputy Clerk) Sarah Hatherley (Researcher)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting.

1.2 Apologies were received from Mabon ap Gwynfor MS, and Sioned Williams MS attended in his place.

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2 Inquiry into gynaecological cancers: follow up with Welsh Government

2.1 The Committee received evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, and Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing.

2.2 The Cabinet Secretary agreed to provide data on the number of GPs in Wales referring patients into Rapid Diagnostic Centres.

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3 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting

3.1 The Committee agreed the motion.

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4 Inquiry into gynaecological cancers: follow up with Welsh Government - consideration of evidence

4.1 The Committee considered the evidence received and agreed to produce a short report of its findings.

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