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P-04-474 Support for NHS chaplaincy services

This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.

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Meeting: 11/10/2016 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

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Minutes:

The Committee considered this petition together with P-04-457 The Charitable Chaplaincy Campaign, and agreed to close both petitions given the previous Committee’s detailed consideration of the issues and the clear statement of the Government’s view from the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport.

 


Meeting: 26/11/2013 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4)

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Minutes:

The Committee considered correspondence on the petitions and agreed to:

 

·         Prepare a draft letter to the Minister drawing together the various issues that have arisen during consideration of the petition and suggesting matters for the Minister’s further consideration; and

·         Consider closing the petition once this is done.

 


Meeting: 18/06/2013 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 5)

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Minutes:

Members discussed the evidence session on 2 June agreed to write to;

 

·         individual LHBs asking if they record any data in relation to the use of chaplaincy services; and asking how funding is allocated across services within the LHB area; and

·         the Minister for Health and Social Services informing him of the work the Committee has undertaken on the petitions, highlighting the Charitable Chaplaincy petitioner’s concerns about definitions of spiritual and religious care and asking whether the Welsh Government requires LHB’s to provide Chaplaincy Services.

 

Depending on the responses received from the LHBs and the Minister the Committee may take further oral evidence on the petitions.


Meeting: 04/06/2013 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 7)

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Jim Stewart, Petitioner

 

Wynne Roberts, Pastoral Care Chaplain and Chair of the Interfaith Network of North West Wales

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Minutes:

Jim Stewart and Wynne Roberts answered questions from the Committee.

 

Wynne Roberts agreed to provide the Committee with more information on the work undertaken by Chaplaincy Services in Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board.


Meeting: 16/04/2013 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 2)

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to:

 

·         group the petition with P-04-457 for consideration, while taking note of the opposing positions taken by each of the petitions;

·         write to the Minister for Health and Social Services making him aware of the petition and to seek his views on the possibility of extending chaplaincy services to other care settings; and

·         take oral evidence.