Meeting Venue:
Hybrid –
Committee Room 3, Senedd
and video
conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 12 November 2025
Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:
Sarah Beasley
Committee Clerk
0300 200
6565
SeneddHealth@senedd.wales
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pre-meeting
(9.00-9.30)
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meeting
(9.30-11.00)
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1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions,
and declarations of interest
(9.30)
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Inquiry into the future of general
practice in Wales: evidence session with Welsh
Government
(9.30-11.00)
(Pages 1 - 61)
Jeremy Miles – Cabinet Secretary for
Health and Social Care
Alex Slade - Director of Primary Care, Mental
Health and Early Years
Paul Casey - Deputy Director for Primary and
Community Care
Research brief
Paper 1 – Welsh Government brief:
inquiry into the future of general practice in Wales
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3
Papers to note
(11.00)
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3.1 Additional information from BMA Cymru following
evidence session on 17 September 2025
(Pages 62 - 65)
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3.2 Additional information from Royal College of General
Practitioners (RCGP) following evidence session on 17 September
2025
(Pages 66 - 70)
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3.3 Submission from Dispensing Doctor’s Association
(DDA) Ltd to inform the inquiry into the future of general practice
in Wales
(Pages 71 - 87)
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3.4 Letter to Chief Executives of Swansea Bay University
Health Board (UHB) and Health Education and Improvement Wales
(HEIW) regarding the lack of Band 5 adult nursing positions within
Swansea Bay UHB.
(Pages 88 - 89)
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3.5 Response from Chief Executives of Swansea Bay
University Health Board (UHB) and Health Education and Improvement
Wales (HEIW) regarding the lack of Band 5 adult nursing positions
within Swansea Bay UHB
(Pages 90 - 92)
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3.6 Letter from Minister for Children and Social Care -
update on progress made to prepare Local Health Boards (LHBs) for
new Continuing Healthcare (CHC) direct payment
responsibilities
(Pages 93 - 94)
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4
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the
meeting
(11.00)
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Private
Meeting
(11.00
-12.30)
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5
Inquiry into the future of general
practice in Wales: consideration of evidence
(11.00-11.10)
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Break
(11.10-11.20)
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Briefing from Public Health Wales on
primary care and general practice
(11.20 -
12.30)
(Pages 95 - 105)
Professor Jim McManus – National
Director of Health and Wellbeing,
Public Health Wales
Jim McManus, National Director of Health and
wellbeing, Public Health Wales
Zoe Wallace, Director of Primary Care, Public
Health Wales
Kerry Bailey, Consultant in Public Health,
Public Health Wales
Rachel Andrew, Consultant in Public Health,
Public Health Wales
Paper 2 – Public Health Wales brief:
inquiry into the future of general practice in Wales
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