Decision details
Debate: End of Life Care
Decision Maker: Plenary - Fourth Assembly
Status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Decision:
The item started
at 17.24
Voting on the motion and amendments under
this item was deferred until Voting Time.
NDM5209 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
To propose the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes the progress made to-date to improve end of life
care service; and
2. Notes Together For Health: Delivering End of Life
Care.
The following amendments were tabled:
Amendment 1 - William Graham (South Wales East)
Delete point 1 and replace with:
Notes the importance of the provision of high quality end
of life care services in Wales.
A vote was taken on Amendment 1:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
25 |
0 |
26 |
51 |
Amendment 1 was not
agreed.
Amendment 2 - William Graham (South Wales East)
Add as new point 2 and renumber accordingly:
Recognises the contribution of the hospice movement, and other
providers of care, towards high quality end of life care.
A vote was taken on Amendment 2:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
51 |
0 |
0 |
51 |
Amendment 2 was
agreed.
Amendment 3 - William Graham (South Wales East)
Add as new point 2 and renumber accordingly:
Recognises the importance of respecting the wishes of patients in
the provision of end of life care.
A vote was taken on Amendment 3:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
51 |
0 |
0 |
51 |
Amendment 3 was
agreed.
Amendment 4 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls on the Welsh Government to review the benefits that
direct payments can offer to improve the patient experience for people in
receipt of end of life care.
A vote was taken on Amendment 4:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
25 |
0 |
26 |
51 |
Amendment 4 was not
agreed.
Amendment 5 - William Graham (South Wales East)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Regrets that real term cuts to the health budget will
hinder progress in improving end of life care in Wales and calls on the Welsh
Government to reprioritise its budgets to ensure that
appropriate resources are available.
A vote was taken on Amendment 5:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
13 |
5 |
33 |
51 |
Amendment 5 was not
agreed.
A vote was taken on the motion as amended:
NDM5209 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
To propose the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes the progress made to-date to improve end of life
care service;
2. Recognises
the importance of respecting the wishes of patients in the provision of end of
life care;
3. Recognises the contribution
of the hospice movement, and other providers of care, towards high quality end
of life care; and
4. Notes Together For Health: Delivering End of Life
Care.
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
51 |
0 |
0 |
51 |
The
motion as amended was agreed.
Publication date: 23/04/2013
Date of decision: 23/04/2013
Decided at meeting: 23/04/2013 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly