Decision details
Debate on Research and Innovation in Health and Social Care
Decision Maker: Plenary - Fourth Assembly
Status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Decision:
The item started at 17:00.
NDM4967 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Recognises that research and innovation
in health and social care are fundamental to the health, well-being and wealth
of people in Wales.
Voting on the motion and amendments under this item was
deferred until Voting Time.
The following amendments were tabled:
Amendment 1 - William Graham (South Wales East)
Add as a new point at end of motion:
Acknowledges the need for sufficient funding and investment in health and
social care to realise and implement the benefits
from any new research, and regrets that real term cuts to NHS budgets in Wales
will be a barrier to this.
A vote was taken on Amendment 1:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
13 |
0 |
41 |
54 |
Amendment 1 was not agreed.
Amendment 2 - William Graham (South Wales East)
Add as a new point at end of motion:
Calls for additional investment in research centres
in Wales to attract the best minds from around the world and increase the potential
for high value collaboration with industrial partners.
A vote was taken on Amendment 2:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
54 |
0 |
0 |
54 |
Amendment 2 was agreed.
Amendment 3 - William Graham (South Wales East)
Add as a new point at end of motion:
Recognises the role of the Higher
Education Sector in providing world class research which has the potential to
provide innovative solutions for health and social care challenges in Wales.
A vote was taken on Amendment 3:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
54 |
0 |
0 |
54 |
Amendment 3 was agreed.
Amendment 4 - Peter Black (South Wales West)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Believes that the
Welsh Government should support innovative developments in the health service,
such as image-guided radiation therapy and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy,
to take place at Velindre.
A vote was taken on Amendment 4:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
54 |
0 |
0 |
54 |
Amendment 4 was agreed.
A vote was taken on the
motion as amended:
NDM4967 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Recognises that research and innovation
in health and social care are fundamental to the health, well-being and wealth
of people in Wales.
Calls for additional investment in research centres
in Wales to attract the best minds from around the world and increase the potential
for high value collaboration with industrial partners.
Recognises the role of the Higher
Education Sector in providing world class research which has the potential to
provide innovative solutions for health and social care challenges in Wales.
Believes that the
Welsh Government should support innovative developments in the health service,
such as image-guided radiation therapy and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy,
to take place at Velindre.
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
54 |
0 |
0 |
54 |
The motion as amended was agreed.
Publication date: 01/05/2012
Date of decision: 01/05/2012
Decided at meeting: 01/05/2012 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly