Health, Wellbeing and Care
Last updated 09 February 2012
These reports are intended to provide you with the facts and factual analysis upon which Ministers have taken the following decisions
Within this section the decisions relate to: Benefits; Care; Cosmetic treatments; Disability; Family planning; Food and drink; Health; Health and social care professionals; Health care; NHS; Nutrition; and, Safety
28/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services agreed the draft compact. The Minister also agreed to officials sharing the draft compact with the individuals and organisations to aid its development for public consultation.
26/06/12
The First Minister has agreed to delegate the authority to appoint authorised Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IR(ME)R) inspectors to the Chief Executive of Healthcare Inspectorate Wales under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
26/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed to publish the delivery plan and the report on the consulation exercise.
21/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has approved the Cabinet paper on the Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report 2011, and agreed that the paper should be published at the same time as the minutes of the meeting.
20/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed to move towards an all-Wales’s blood service, associated draft letters to organisations and the written statement
19/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed the Cabinet Written Statement.
15/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services approved the bid for funding
15/06/12
The Minister for Health & Social Services has agreed to write to the Secretary of State for Health, highlighting the outstanding issues resulting from the creation of Public Health England that could impact on Wales.
14/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has approved the procedures for handling complaints against the Board of Community Health Councils, Community Health Councils, their officers or members.
12/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed the written evidence.
12/06/12
The Minister for Health & Social Services has approved and issued the letter to the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee.
12/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed the procedure changes for the approval of Local Health Board contracts exceeding £1 million; the monitoring arrangements for contracts between £500,000 and £1million; and, the monitoring arrangements for contracts between £250,000 and £500,000.
01/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services have agreed the Remit Letter for the Care Council for Wales for 2012/13. The Minister for Education and Skills and the Deputy Minister for Skills have also agreed the recommendations related to thei
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01/06/12
The Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science has agreed to the estimated budget of a maximum of £17,330 for the food conference
01/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has consented for the contract to be let.
30/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services have agreed to officials undertaking a procurement exercise for the delivery of learning disability awareness training for hospital staff in Wales.
30/05/12
The Deputy Minister for Social Services and Children has agreed Rachel Demery and Dorian Lewis be appointed to service user posts; agreed Dr Alyson Rees is appointed to HE Post for 3 years and has agreed to issue the draft letters and T&C to candidates.
30/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed to draft Stroke Delivery Plan for the NHS and to a 12 week period for consultation has also been agreed to begin week commencing on 10 May 2012.
30/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has approved the establishment of the Health and Wellbeing Best Practice and Innovation Board and agreed the draft terms of reference of the Board. The Minister has also agreed to launch the Board at the NHS Awards taking place in July and agreed in princ
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30/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed for the NHS in Wales to participate in arrangements to improve tuberculosis follow-up checks of migrants in Wales and to inform the Minister of State for Immigration, Damian Green MP of her decision.
29/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services agreed to the publication of the Information Delivery Plan
24/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed the Written Statement.
24/05/12
The Deputy Minister published a Plenary Statement and letter responding to the Care Council and CSSIW’s joint response to Sustainable Social Services.
18/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed to appoint the following associate members; Dr Alan Stevenson, Chair of the Healthcare Professionals Forum on Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University LHB, Mr Selwyn Jones, Chair of the Healthcare Professionals Forum on Cwm Taf LHB, Ms Sandra Morgan,
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18/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services have agreed to allocate funding of £2m for 2012-13 to continue to develop and implement actions within the Autistic Spectrum Disorder Strategic Action Plan for Wales
17/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services agreed to lay the Code of Practice to Parts 2 and 3 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 before the National Assembly for Wales.
16/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed to officials holding discussions with the British Generic Manufacturers Association on generic medicine matters that are an issue for Wales.
16/05/12
The Minister for Health & Social Services, the Minister for Local Government and Communities and the Minister for Finance and Leader of the House have agreed to the move of £32,000 from the Public Health Special Initiatives BEL to the local authorities’ Revenue Support Grant budget line.
15/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services agreed the realignment of the management and funding arrangements for the Pharmacy, Dental Health and Environmental Health Professional Advisory functions to Public Health Wales.
15/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services agreed the realignment of the management and funding arrangements for Mental Health First Aid, Smoke Bugs, National Exercise Referral Scheme, Skin Cancer, Smokers Helpline, Health Challenge Wales Well-being Activity Grant Scheme, Health Challenge Wales We
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15/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed to increase the rate at which CHC members are paid for travel on official business to 45 pence per mile from 1 April 2012.
14/05/12
The Minster for Health and Social Services agreed that the review of Communication Equipment should be submitted for further scrutiny by an expert panel drawn from Health, Education and Social Services both within Welsh Government and Local Health Boards and local authorities with a view testing th
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14/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has consented for the contract to be let.
11/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed that officials enter into a contract with the MET Office to provide Wales with heatwave alerts from 1 June 2012 to 15 September 2012.
11/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Sevices approved the paper for submission to the Health and Social Care Committee.
11/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed to allocate £1.377 million to support implementation the Blood Borne Viral Hepatitis Action Plan in 2012/2013.
11/05/12
The Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science has agreed to funding totalling £739 (50% of total eligible costs) to to fund 50% of the travel costs for two representatives from Cardiff University School of Pharmacy and the School of Biosciences to travel to Brussels to attend the FP
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10/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed to the publication of a written statement announcing the launch of the Together for Mental Health consultation exercise.
10/05/12
The Minister for Health & Social Services has agreed the Cardiff & Vale University Health board, be given consent to enter into a contract with St John Cymru for the provision of unplanned discharges and transfers of patients considered medically unfit to be transported by other means.
10/05/12
The Deputy Minister for Children and Social Service has agreed the proposed way forward and approved proposals.
03/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed to the appointment of Mrs Chantal Patel for a 4 year period
03/05/12
The Minister has agreed to the funding of the NHS Retirement Fellowship at a level of £40k for 2012/13 and agreed to provide indicative grant allocation for 2013/14 and 2014/15 at a similar level to 2012/13.
03/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed the Written Statement
02/05/12
The Minister for Health & Social Services has agreed that Linagliptin (Trajenta®) is not recommended for use within NHS Wales for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus to improve glycaemic control in adults.
02/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed authority for the Health, Social Services and Children Director General to sign Directions which will require Local Health Boards (LHBs) to authorise Welsh Ministers to bring proceedings against Reckitt Benckiser in the name of LHBs as well as
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19/04/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed for Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Local Health Board to enter into a maintenance contract with Toshiba Medical Systems Limited.
17/04/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has approved expenditure of programme monies to Public Health Wales as non-core grant funding for the extension of its Surgical Instrument Surveillance Programme to cover non-luer connectors from 2012 to 2015.
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