Select Committee · Welsh Affairs Committee

Cross-border healthcare

Status: Closed Opened: 10 Jan 2025 Closed: 6 May 2025

This one-off session will look at the experiences of patients accessing, and medical professionals providing, healthcare across Wales' border with England. It will focus on identifying the challenges involved and what actions might be taken to address them.

Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
22 Jan 2025 Carol Shillabeer · Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Dr David Bailey · British Medical Association, Dr Stephen Kelly · British Medical Association, Rachel Power · Patients Association, Simon Whitehouse · NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board, Stacey Taylor · NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee View ↗

Who gave evidence

6 witnesses
WitnessOrganisationSessions
Carol Shillabeer · Chief Executive Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board 1
Dr David Bailey · former Chair of Welsh council British Medical Association 1
Dr Stephen Kelly · Chair of Welsh consultants committee British Medical Association 1
Rachel Power · Chief Executive Patients Association 1
Simon Whitehouse · Chief Executive NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board 1
Stacey Taylor · Interim Chief Commissioner NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee 1

Correspondence

9 letters
DateDirectionTitle
28 Mar 2025 Correspondence between the Chair and the British Medical Association
28 Mar 2025 Correspondence from NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin to the Chair
28 Mar 2025 Correspondence from the Chair to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Ca…
28 Mar 2025 Correspondence from the Chair to the Secretary of State for Health and Social C…
22 Jan 2025 To cttee Letter from the Welsh NHS Confederation to the Chair regarding cross-border hea…
22 Jan 2025 To cttee Letter from the British Medical Association to the Chair regarding cross-border…
22 Jan 2025 To cttee Letter from Llais Cymru to the Chair regarding cross-border healthcare
22 Jan 2025 To cttee Letter from the Royal College of General Practitioners to the Chair regarding c…
22 Jan 2025 To cttee Letter from the Royal College of Nursing to the Chair regarding cross-border he…