Meeting Venue:
Video Conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 16 September 2020
Meeting time: 09.00
For further information contact:
Sarah Beasley
Committee Clerk
0300 200 6565
SeneddHealth@senedd.wales
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In accordance with Standing Order 34.19, the Chair has determined that the public are excluded from the Committee's meeting in order to protect public health. This meeting will be broadcast live on www.senedd.tv
Informal pre-meeting (09.00-09.30)
1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
(09.30)
2 COVID-19: Evidence session with the Welsh Government's Technical Advisory Cell
(09.30-11.30) (Pages 1 - 16)
Dr Rob Orford, Co-Chair of Technical Advisory Cell and Chief Scientific Adviser (Health)
Fliss Bennee, Co-Chair of Technical Advisory Cell
Dr Heather Payne, Senior Medical Officer for Maternal & Child Health
Dr Marion Lyons, Senior Medical Officer
Research brief
3 Paper(s) to note
(11.30)
3.1 Letter from the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services providing an update to Members relating to the actions being taken forward by Welsh Government, following publication of the Committee's inquiry report on Carers last November
(Pages 17 - 30)
3.2 Letter from Chair, Finance Committee regarding the Welsh Government's Draft Budget 2021-22
(Pages 31 - 33)
3.3 Letter from the Chair to the Minister for Health and Social Services following the evidence session on 16 July 2020
(Pages 34 - 37)
3.4 Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services following the evidence session on 16 July 2020
(Pages 38 - 45)
3.5 Letter from Chair, Petitions Committee regarding Petition P-05-966 Reverse Minimum price Alcohol
(Page 46)
3.6 Letter from the Chair to the Minister for Health and Social Services regarding the Advanced Care Planning (ACP)
(Page 47)
3.7 Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services regarding the Advanced Care Planning (ACP)
(Pages 48 - 49)
3.8 Additional information from the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists to inform the Committee's inquiry into the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak, and its management, on health and social care in Wales
(Pages 50 - 55)
3.9 Letter from the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services regarding childcare provision for school-age children of critical workers over the summer period
(Pages 56 - 57)
3.10Letter from the Chair to the Minister for Health and Social Services regarding testing turnaround times
(Pages 58 - 59)
3.11Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services regarding testing turnaround times
(Pages 60 - 63)
3.12Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services regarding the shielding announcement
(Pages 64 - 65)
3.13Letter from the Royal College of General Practitioners Wales following the Committee's evidence session with the Minister and Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services and the Director General for Health and Social Services and the NHS Wales Chief Executive
(Pages 66 - 67)
3.14Letter from Dr Goodall, Director General for Health and Social Services and the NHS Wales Chief Executive in response to the letter from the Royal College of General Practitioners Wales
(Pages 68 - 70)
3.15Letter from the Chair to the Minister for Health and Social Services regarding the Holden Report
(Page 71)
4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
(11.30)
5 COVID-19: Consideration of evidence
(11.30-11.45)
6 Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Medicines and Medical Devices Bill: consideration of written evidence
(11.45-12.10) (Pages 72 - 87)
Paper 16 - Consideration of the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
7 COVID-19: Consideration of the Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on its inquiry into the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak, and its management, on health and social care in Wales
(12.10-12.30) (Pages 88 - 125)
Paper 17 - Welsh Government Response