4 February 2025 , Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2025-26
… million for capital investment. This is a substantial commitment and I welcome any measures aimed at reducing waiting times , improving mental health services and strengthening social care. However, most of the investment will be going on pay and … and I know that funding is very limited. One of the biggest issues in Wales today is NHS waiting times , and we all know that thousands of people in Wales are waiting too long for treatment. The Government …
2 December 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
… boundary, but there is a need to explain why there's such a difference in terms of those waiting times . The situation is similar across Wales as well. Just to come back to your point about understanding how … social care service. They shouldn't be waiting , and that does show the impact of a very long waiting time , which then creates a very serious situation simply because of the wait …
8 June 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… the situation she finds herself in now. Secondly, I'd like to focus on ambulance and A&E waiting times . The performance at A&E waiting rooms across north Wales is simply not good enough. In April … Betsi recorded the worst A&E waiting times in Wales, with just over half of patients being seen within four hours. And the story's even worse at specific hospitals, at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd and at Wrexham Maelor …
14 May 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session - panel 6
… Cardiff and Vale as absolutely one of our priority areas that we need to address. We categorise our waiting times and urgency as per the Royal College of Ophthalmologists guidelines, and map ourselves very carefully against that … have made some inroads into reducing waiting times in Cardiff and Vale over the last couple of months, but it remains a real area of focus for us, and we do have a mismatch at present between demand …
2 June 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… effect on residents in Cwmbran and the wider Torfaen area, with constituents facing longer journey times , increased waiting times and added pressure on already stretched hospitals? Diolch …
9 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
… predecessor, who is now the Cabinet Secretary for Education. Lynne Neagle set out that she wanted the waiting times , including child and adolescent mental health services waiting times , to come down—that’s been achieved; a delivery unit …
19 March 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Improving access to healthcare and reducing waiting times is a priority for this Government. Health boards across south-east Wales are working hard to deliver good-quality and timely services, and we are taking clear and decisive action … reduce all waiting times , including orthopaedics …
21 October 2026 , Plenary
Members' Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): An NHS first Bill
… increasing pressures on our already overstretched NHS. Not only can private providers be used to help bring down waiting times , but they can actually alleviate pressure on the health service in other ways too, by providing extra capacity … when the NHS does not have the capacity to deliver quickly enough? Are we going to make patients wait even longer than they have to whilst another plan is drawn up? If an NHS department can deliver treatment …
21 October 2026 , Plenary
Members' Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): An NHS first Bill
… Socialist Health Association, and committed to a publicly funded and publicly provided health service. The NHS, despite the waiting times and financial pressures, is supported by the vast majority of people in Wales. When you consider the cost … easy-to-provide services, not providing the expensive and difficult-to-provide. I support, wherever possible, delivery of waiting -list initiatives, surgeries and clinics within the NHS rather than through the private sector. The private sector is looking …
25 September 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
… into the life of this Senedd, all we have is, on health, for example, a promise to cut waiting times —well, we know we need to cut waiting times —a better women’s health service—I know … admission of that in the concluding comments of the Minister for delivery. Now, on the bright side, time is short because an election is just over 18 months away, bringing the possibility of real change. Plaid Cymru will …
6 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
… public money. In healthcare, for example, we know that additional capacity can sometimes be needed to reduce waiting times . Audit Wales has highlighted that insourcing and outsourcing can help reduce long waits , but that it can also place …
20 March 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services on Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 4
… the previous answer we've just heard, on some of the issues, then, in terms of getting waiting times down in Wales, because obviously we've seen efforts to improve eye care services and get those waiting times …
22 October 2026 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… have declined. Departments have closed or been downgraded, maternity, mental health, and specialist services centralised or removed, and waiting times have grown intolerably. In some counties, provision has reached "ground zero", where timely access to essential care cannot …
23 May 2022 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… long time . I know that the Health and Social Care Committee have recently held an inquiry into hospital waiting times and ambulance waiting times , and I know that the health committee have recently taken evidence on this …
9 January 2024 , Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
… the most pressing areas, is to support the state of our Welsh NHS, and particularly the long waiting times and seeing those waiting times reduce. That is a priority I would suggest for the people of Wales. Now …
20 March 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 3
Yes. So, how is data on patient outcomes and waiting times collected and reported by community optometrists, and how can that in itself be used to improve service delivery that then, in turn, reduces waiting times …
21 October 2026 , Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Prostate cancer strategy
… that cancer services in Wales are a major priority for me. In the field of cancer, performance regarding waiting times remains below the standards that we expect, and this includes parts of the urology pathway. Although NHS staff …
21 October 2026 , Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Prostate cancer strategy
… Wales. It highlights problems with incomplete data, data with linkage issues and underrecording. We also know that waiting times for cancer treatment remain a serious problem here. The 62-day target is still missed routinely, and diagnostic capacity …
24 January 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… NHS suggests that, last week, the week beginning 16 January, had it been a red call, the standard waiting time —the median waiting time —from the minute a call is dispatched to it arriving with a patient was …
26 March 2025 , Plenary
Short Debate: Thinking differently: The Women's Institute campaign to support autistic and ADHD women and girls
… services across Wales. In February 2025, I announced a further £13.7 million to improve neurodivergent services and reduce waiting times for autism and ADHD assessments, and this will extend the work of the national neurodivergence improvement programme until … building on the £12 million already invested over the past three years. Our goal is to drive down waiting times for children's neurodevelopmental assessments, and to continue the transformation work to create sustainable, integrated services that better …