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NDM6745 Welsh Conservatives debate - Wales's health and social care workforce
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Meeting: 20/06/2018 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 8)
Welsh Conservatives debate - The health and social care workforce
NDM6745 Paul
Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1.
Recognises the vital contribution made by Wales’s health and social care
workforce.
2.
Believes that a valued, supported and healthy workforce will be key in driving
forward the transformation NHS Wales needs to be sustainable in the future.
3.
Calls on the Welsh Government to publish a comprehensive integrated strategy
for Wales’s health and social care workforce to ensure our services are able to
address future demand for safe and high quality services by January 2019.
4.
Calls on the Welsh Government to make NHS Wales an exemplar employer through
its support for well-being at work by implementing priority access to treatment
for NHS workers and developing robust policies that support the health,
well-being and continual professional development of the health and social care
workforce.
The following amendments
have been tabled:
Amendment 1 - Caroline
Jones (South Wales West)
Insert
as new point 2 and renumber accordingly:
Regrets
that, due to the failure of successive Welsh Governments to undertake adequate
workforce planning, the NHS in Wales has staff shortages across many
specialities, particularly nursing, general practice, emergency medicine,
psychiatry, radiology and endoscopy; and that these shortages are putting
existing staff under tremendous strain and impacting on patient care.
Amendment 2 -
Julie James (Swansea West)
Delete
points 3 and 4 and replace with:
Welcomes
the Welsh Government’s commitment to:
a)
publish a comprehensive integrated strategy for Wales’s health and social care
workforce in 2019 to ensure our services are able to address future demand for safe
and high quality services;
b)
make NHS Wales an exemplar employer through its support for well-being at work
by developing robust policies that support the health, well-being and continual
professional development of the health and social care workforce.
[If amendment 2 is agreed,
amendment 3 will be de-selected]
Amendment 3 - Caroline
Jones (South Wales West)
In
point 4, delete 'implementing priority access to treatment for NHS workers
and'.
Amendment 4 - Rhun
ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Add
as new point at end of motion:
Calls
for the opening of a centre for medical education in Bangor and the expansion
of medical education across Wales to ensure every region has the health
workforce it requires.
Amendment 5 - Rhun
ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Add
as new point at end of motion:
Calls
for future health and social care workforce plans to include robust targets for
providing a bilingual workforce and details of how existing NHS staff will be
encouraged and supported to learn Welsh.
Minutes:
The item started at
17.15
Voting
on the motion and amendments under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
A
vote was taken on the motion without amendment:
NDM6745 Paul
Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1.
Recognises the vital contribution made by Wales’s health and social care
workforce.
2.
Believes that a valued, supported and healthy workforce will be key in driving
forward the transformation NHS Wales needs to be sustainable in the future.
3.
Calls on the Welsh Government to publish a comprehensive integrated strategy
for Wales’s health and social care workforce to ensure our services are able to
address future demand for safe and high quality services by January 2019.
4.
Calls on the Welsh Government to make NHS Wales an exemplar employer through
its support for well-being at work by implementing priority access to treatment
for NHS workers and developing robust policies that support the health,
well-being and continual professional development of the health and social care
workforce.
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
14 |
0 |
37 |
51 |
The
motion without amendment was agreed.
The
following amendments were tabled:
Amendment 1 - Caroline
Jones (South Wales West)
Insert as new point
2 and renumber accordingly:
Regrets that, due
to the failure of successive Welsh Governments to undertake adequate workforce
planning, the NHS in Wales has staff shortages across many specialities, particularly
nursing, general practice, emergency medicine, psychiatry, radiology and
endoscopy; and that these shortages are putting existing staff under tremendous
strain and impacting on patient care.
A vote was taken on
amendment 1:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
21 |
1 |
29 |
51 |
Amendment
1 was not agreed.
Amendment 2 - Julie James (Swansea West)
Delete points 3 and
4 and replace with:
Welcomes the Welsh
Government’s commitment to:
a) publish a comprehensive
integrated strategy for Wales’s health and social care workforce in 2019 to
ensure our services are able to address future demand for safe and high quality
services;
b) make NHS Wales
an exemplar employer through its support for well-being at work by developing
robust policies that support the health, well-being and continual professional
development of the health and social care workforce.
A vote was taken on
amendment 2:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
29 |
0 |
22 |
51 |
Amendment
2 was agreed.
As amendment 2 was
agreed, amendment 3 was de-selected.
Amendment 4 - Rhun
ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls for the opening of a centre for medical education in Bangor and the
expansion of medical education across Wales to ensure every region has the
health workforce it requires.
A vote was taken on
amendment 4:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
51 |
0 |
0 |
51 |
Amendment
4 was agreed.
Amendment 5 - Rhun
ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls for future health and social care workforce plans to include robust
targets for providing a bilingual workforce and details of how existing NHS
staff will be encouraged and supported to learn Welsh.
A vote was taken on
amendment 5:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
51 |
0 |
0 |
51 |
Amendment
5 was agreed.
A
vote was taken on the motion as amended:
To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1.
Recognises the vital contribution made by Wales’s health and social care
workforce.
2.
Believes that a valued, supported and healthy workforce will be key in driving
forward the transformation NHS Wales needs to be sustainable in the future.
3. Welcomes the
Welsh Government’s commitment to:
a) publish a
comprehensive integrated strategy for Wales’s health and social care workforce
in 2019 to ensure our services are able to address future demand for safe and
high quality services;
b) make NHS Wales
an exemplar employer through its support for well-being at work by developing
robust policies that support the health, well-being and continual professional
development of the health and social care workforce.
4. Calls for the opening of a centre for medical education in Bangor and
the expansion of medical education across Wales to ensure every region has the
health workforce it requires.
5. Calls for future health and social care workforce plans to include
robust targets for providing a bilingual workforce and details of how existing
NHS staff will be encouraged and supported to learn Welsh.
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
29 |
0 |
22 |
51 |
The
motion as amended was agreed.