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Open WAG Consultations
Consultation on the draft document ‘A Strategic Vision for Maternity Services in Wales’
Opened 24/01/11; Closes 18/04/11
This consultation is seeking comments and views from clinicians, NHS managers and services users. For more information click here.
Supplementary guidance on procedures when discharging patients from hospital to a care setting
Opened 28/01/11; Closes 25/03/11
This consultation seeks your comments on draft supplementary guidance to the National Assistance Act 1948 (Choice of Accommodation) Directions 1993. For more information click here.
Consultation on the draft document ‘A Strategic Vision for Maternity Services in Wales’
Opened 24/01/11; Closes 18/04/11
This consultation is seeking comments and views from clinicians, NHS managers and services users.
Charging for homecare and other non-residential social services
Opened 10/12/10; Closes 04/02/11
Changes are planned to introduce more consistency in the way local councils charge for their services. This consultation seeks your comments on the draft regulations and guidance to local councils needed to implement a 'First Steps Improvement Package' of changes to introduce more consistency. For more information click here.
Relevant WAG Publications
The Autistic Sprectrum Disorder (ASD) Strategic Action Plan for Wales
(26/01/11)
The circumstances and support needs of older people with autism
(26/01/11)
Health, Social Care and Well-being Strategies
(25/01/11)
In Safe Hands - The role of Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW)
(24/01/11)
(19/01/11)
Your rights to complain: A quick guide to complaints procedures for adults using social services
(19/01/11)
(19/01/11)
Guidelines for developing and integrating community equipment services in Wales
(18/01/11)
Use of direct payments by local authorities and health organisations
(12/01/11)
All Wales anesthesia and surgery standards
(23/12/10)
(1/12/10)
Fulfilled Lives, Supportive Communities
(29/11/10)
(26/11/10)
Our Healthy Future Annual Progress Report October 2009 - October 2010
(16/11/10)
(4/11/10)
Organ Donation and Transplantation Figures
(5/11/10)
Veterans’ and Armed Forces Champions
(19/10/10)
NHS Wales Chief Executive’s Annual Report 2009/10
(06/09/10)
Ministerial Letter ML/EH/033/09: Consolidation of Waiting List Rules
(24/08/10)
Vascular Risk Management in Wales: A report from the Vascular Project Group (March 2010)
(23/08/10)
Interim community mental health team guidance
(16/08/10)
Letter to Assembly Members - Dementia Services
(16/08/10)
Statutory Guidance: Fulfilled Lives Supportive Communities Commissioning Framework and Guidance
(10/08/10)
(09/08/10)
Adults with autism conference report
(05/08/10)
Adult Placement Task and Finish Group Report
(04/08/10)
Review of the Care Council for Wales and citizen centred governance assessment
(03/08/10)
Delivering the Care Programme Approach in Wales: Interim Policy Implementation Guidance
(03/08/10)
Secure Mental Health Services Action Plan for Wales
(03/08/10)
Setting the Direction: Primary & Community Services Strategic Delivery Programme
(27/07/10)
Further Development of the Social Services Complaints Process in Wales
(14/07/10)
Ministerial Letter ML/EH/029/10: Revision of National Ambulance Response Standards
(14/07/10)
Ministerial Letter EH/ML/025/10: 20010-11 Seasonal Influenza (Flu) Immunisation Programme
(13/07/10)
The Mental Health (Wales) Measure factsheet
(07/07/10)
Ministerial Letter EH/ML/016/10: The Home Oxygen Service: Patient Assessments
(05/07/10)
(28/06/10)
(18/06/10)
Ministerial Letter EH/ML/018/10: Continuing NHS Healthcare: New National Framework for Adults
(14/06/10)
NAfW Committee Inquiries
Support in Wales for armed service veterans
A new National Assembly for Wales inquiry is underway to examine what support is in place to help armed service veterans in Wales who are suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee will be looking at how veterans with PTSD are identified and treated and whether there is suitable assistance in place for them and for their families and carers. For more information, click here.
Orthodontic services in Wales
The National Assembly for Wales’s Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee has launched an inquiry into orthodontic services in Wales and is calling for evidence from interested parties. Submissions should arrive no later than Friday September 3 2010. For more information, click here.
Neonatal services in Wales
The Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee has published its report. To read it, click here. The Minister is now duty-bound to respond, should you wish to raise a specific matter with them click here for further contact details.
Local Safeguarding Children Boards
The Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee has agreed to undertake an inquiry into Local Safeguarding Children Boards in Wales. The Committee is hearing oral evidence. To read transcripts of meetings and written responses, click here.
Petitions
P-03-298 - Financing the provision of Welsh-language resources for people with dyslexia
Received 02/08/10
This petition calls on the National Assembly for Wales to encourage the Welsh Government to fund Wales Dyslexia so that it can develop some of the resources that were recommended by the Enterprise and Learning Committees report, entitled Support for People with Dyslexia in Wales, which was published in July 2008, with a follow-up report published in October 2009. For more information click here.
The Petitions Committee has received evidence from the Minister for Children, Educatiopn and Lifelong Learning and will contact Estyn.
P-03-295 - Kyle Beere - Paediatric Neuro Rehabilitation Services
Received 12/06/10
This petition calls upon the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to recognise and deliver services for the rehabilitation of brain injured children. There is currently no facility in Wales to provide this vital service. Despite there being a purpose built children's hospital being built in Cardiff, there is still no provision included in its design. For more information click here.
The Petitions Committee will seek the petitioners’ views on the evidence that has been given.
P-03-288 National Strategy on Independent Living
Received 23/04/10
This petition calls upon the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Assembly Government to introduce a National Strategy on Independent Living that recognises the equal right of all disabled people to live in the community, with choices equal to others, and to ensure that this is facilitated through effective and appropriate measures. For more information click here.
P-03-181 - Pernicious Anaemia
Received 06/10/08
This petition calls upon the National Assembly for Wales to recognise that the diagnosis and treatment of Pernicious Anaemia does not take into account the individual needs of patients and that the patient experience of managing the condition is often affected detrimentally because of this. For more information click here.
This petition has been closed and a summary report is being produced.
P-03-153 - Body Piercing
Received 06/06/08
This petition calls upon the National Assembly for Wales to place restrictions on the age at which a minor can have body piercing. The age for body piercings, other than the ears and nose, should be regulated up to the age of 16 years. For more information click here.
The Minister for Health and Social Services is to open a consultation on the matter in March.
National Cancer Standards
Received 06/06/08
This petition calls upon the National Assembly for Wales to investigate whether Local Health Boards have the necessary strategies and action plans in place to deliver the target to comply with the National Cancer Standards by March 2009 in RCT and throughout Wales, as a matter of urgency. For more information click here.
The Petitions Committee has received a response from the petitioner.
P-03-136 - Parking in Heath and Birchgrove
Opened 23/04/08
This petition calls on the Assembly Government and the Cardiff and Vale health board to take steps to improve parking around Cardiff hospitals. For more information click here.
The Petitions Committee is awaiting a formal response from the health board to its invitation to hear evidence.
Relevant LCOs/Measures
Relevant Welsh Affairs Select Committee Information
Committee Report (published 06/01/10): Proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Health and Health Services and Social Welfare) Order 2009: Government Response to the Committee's Fourteenth Report of Session 2008-09, relating to Mental Health
Committee Report (published 30/10/09): Proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Health and Health Services and Social Welfare) Order 2009
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