19 Tachwedd 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2026-27 - sesiwn dystiolaeth
… the First Minister went out and met the people of Wales. They said, 'We have to get the waiting times down for children to have their assessments.' We know that it's related to outcomes and attainment and … prioritised it. When the Cabinet Secretary put the additional money into the system last year to bring down waiting times across the board, that's why neurodiversity was incorporated into that. And, actually, what we did see …
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30 Mehefin 2026 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf 2026-27: Sesiwn tystiolaeth
… terms of the allocations within this supplementary budget, then just on, for example, the £100 million revenue for waiting times , that is a similar figure to what was announced by the previous Government, in the last financial year … spent on waiting times , but the way that we are using that money will have a longer term, sustainable output to how we look at that money, so it's not just moneys that we invest in reducing …
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1 Hydref 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol: Y Bil Iechyd - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1: Cyd-bwyllgor Comisiynu GIG Cymru
And how does that affect—? Everyone I speak to out there just talks about waiting times : 'I've been waiting so many months', blah, blah, blah. So, how does that affect waiting times —the reality … you say to somebody saying, 'Look, I've waited so many months, I don't want to wait that time . I could die during that time '? So, how would you defend that …
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30 Mehefin 2025 , Petitions Committee
Deisebau newydd
Yes, thank you. There are two issues in the petition. The first is around waiting times , the second is around funding. On waiting times , the decision made doesn't apply to cancer care, urgent care or care for … care commissioned in England, which is an entirely normal process—that's commissioned in line with NHS Wales waiting time targets. So, residents of Powys should be treated in the same time as residents of anywhere else …
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30 Mehefin 2026 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf 2026-27: Sesiwn tystiolaeth
… for capital allocation, is to meet Plaid Cymru's and the Welsh Government's now priority to reduce waiting times in Wales. We know how they affect so many people in Wales and therefore we've committed … use that £100 million revenue allocation to support a two-year delivery plan to reduce the NHS waiting times , and we will move beyond just short-term recovery towards sustained improvement. The plan aims to eliminate two-year …
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13 Gorffennaf 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ymadawol gydag Adrian Crompton, Archwilydd Cyffredinol Cymru
… have invested the best part of £0.5 billion in measures to try to bring down the longest waiting times . Some of those steps have been successful, but also expensive. They're expensive and unsustainable approaches. For example, greater … lists, but you can't keep on with that as your model. Similarly, you look at out-patient waiting times . Something like 200,000 out-patient appointments were missed. If we could shave a fraction off those numbers …
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22 Hydref 2026 , Petitions Committee
Deisebau newydd
… Minister urging caution over this, because we're in such a health crisis now. Patients are missing cancer waiting times . We had a big, powerful debate yesterday that Reform called on prostate cancer—a huge issue … moment, our focus—the Government's focus and the Minister's focus—needs to be on bringing those waiting times down, making the current structure we've got work. No-one knows what a restructure to one health …
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20 Mawrth 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Gwasanaethau Offthalmoleg yng Nghymru: sesiynau tystiolaeth – Panel 1
… much, Chair, and good morning to you both. I just wanted to talk a little bit about NHS waiting times both for in-patients and out-patients. I'll start on in-patients first. I represent Wrexham, and … take a burden off Wrexham Maelor Hospital—this is what we were discussing at the time —and the waiting times there. You've spoken a bit, Rhianon, about the barriers to not being able to see more patients …
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1 Hydref 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol: Y Bil Iechyd - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1: Cyd-bwyllgor Comisiynu GIG Cymru
Our contracts are set up in such a way that they meet the Welsh waiting times targets. However, we do have that discussion regularly with English providers where, for them operationally on the ground, it is incredibly difficult … separate waiting lists, so they don't, in effect. And they do actually manage just to that English waiting time , which we know is lower. So, there is potential for differential there between somebody going to Glan Clwyd …
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9 Ionawr 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
… earlier about the additional money the overall department has received and the priorities you've set out on waiting times and access. I'm particularly interested in how you're looking to accelerate progress in reducing paediatric waiting … earlier about inputs, outputs and outcomes. What outcomes do you expect, not just in terms of reducing the waiting times , but what outcomes do you expect in terms of helping to address long-term development delays for children …
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4 Mawrth 2026 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwaith craffu cyffredinol Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
… don't have specific waiting times for community paediatrics. We don't have specific targets for those. I think the key issue has been the quite significant increase in demand over the last two or three years … kilter with that level of demand, frankly. I think the resources that we have made available to reduce waiting times , where there's a community dimension, have so far been focused on reducing mental health waiting times …
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17 Rhagfyr 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Gwella mynediad at gymorth i ofalwyr di-dâl: sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Nobody else can help particularly with that? No. Okay. Claire, you mentioned that you don’t think that waiting times are particularly a problem, and we know that data on waiting times for care and support services are … Welsh Government, but not published. Could you give us any indication at all of what the average waiting times for carer assessments and support plans are at the current time …
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13 Hydref 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Deintyddiaeth - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chymdeithas Ddeintyddol Prydain yng Nghymru a Chymdeithas Orthodontig Prydain
… waiting list that was more appropriate for the geographic needs and the transport infrastructure for that population base. Waiting times have just increased massively. As I mentioned before, we're currently, across Wales, under-commissioning according to the … number of 12-year-olds on the national census in 2021. And waiting times were, say, two years in primary care, even longer in secondary care prior to COVID, and they've just gone up exponentially …
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20 Mawrth 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Gwasanaethau Offthalmoleg yng Nghymru: sesiynau tystiolaeth – Panel 2
… distances, this becomes very attractive. Now, the other argument that people often make is that this distorts the waiting time , and that you're concentrating on doing the second eye before doing the first eye of many patients … computer programme that you can now feed in how many surgeries you're doing, what is your waiting time , and you'll be able to predict when you reach the crossover point and the numbers start coming down …
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15 Hydref 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ymchwiliad i ganserau gynaecolegol: gwaith dilynol gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
… might not get them all in. I'd just like to go back to a couple on waiting times —they're quite key for us at the moment—if you don't mind. You accepted our recommendation … publish regular disaggregated data on gynaecological cancers, yet current reporting only includes general waiting times . Given that those delays vary by cancer type, will you progress that recommendation and commit to publishing waiting time data broken down …
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30 Mehefin 2026 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf 2026-27: Sesiwn tystiolaeth
… enabling us to assess whether this level of additional investment has had the longer term downward trajectory on waiting times that we want to see. So, I'm not as interested in a monthly set of statistics … interested in a 24- to 36-month set of statistics that show that downward trend in waiting times generally. So, you know, ask me in two years what I think …
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16 Ionawr 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26
Diolch. Cabinet Secretary, I just want to talk about waiting times , if I can. There has been an increase in funding provided by the Welsh Government to address waiting times . However they've not decreased across certain disciplines … specialities? And if so, what factors contribute to the underestimation of the scale of the challenges in reducing waiting times , not just in orthopaedics but across other areas as well …
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11 Ionawr 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
… will also be targeting funding at the areas that have been prioritised to the NHS, so recovering waiting times , recovering CAMHS waiting times ; we've also got the delivery unit review of CAMHS that we're looking … starting to make progress at a community level in terms of making sure that we can meet those waiting times , and, as I think you're also aware, the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee are currently scoping for …
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25 Ebrill 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Gwrandawiad cyn penodi ar gyfer rôl Cadeirydd Bwrdd Iechyd Bae Abertawe: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r ymgeisydd a ffefrir gan Lywodraeth Cymru
… care services, whether it's access for acute mental health help and treatment, or whether it's the waiting times —both planned care and unscheduled care. So, I think, from my reading of the waiting times analysis that … into March, the health board has clearly made progress this year on both the 52-week out-patient waiting time , and the 104-week in-patient treatment time . So, there is progress. That's been very hard won …
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17 Rhagfyr 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Gwella mynediad at gymorth i ofalwyr di-dâl: sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
… sitting service that they might need, or a short break that they might need. That's where the waiting times come in, because of the things that we've spoken about previously around the provision that … everything we've said about the sustainability of those support services then comes into train in terms of waiting times for respite and sitting services and short breaks, principally …
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