18 November 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with mental health and psychological support organisations
Contextually, people with long-term conditions or who are experiencing great pain are something like two times more likely to experience poor mental health, so it goes right to the heart of the question about parity between physical … the condition’s been established, but there’s not a huge amount that’s given whilst people are waiting . Obviously, people are waiting in great discomfort. Anything that can alter your self-perception or your self-esteem …
26 November 2025 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… time to scrutinise these figures properly in this Chamber. So, I'd like to know, if these data problems can be sorted out, are we going to have this statement sooner rather than later, rather than waiting until …
26 November 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 - Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
… time . One virtue of going slightly later on this review is that we'll be able to reflect on the recommendations of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee once they come out, which we're waiting for …
1 October 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 2: Llais
They are. That's a commissioning issue and Betsi Cadwaladr have been appraised on that many times in our representations to them. Because you're on the border, you might have somebody who lives a couple of miles … talk to their neighbours and hear, 'I'm having my hip replacement in three months'; 'I've been waiting two years'. There are reasons for that, and people need to understand what they are, but also there need …
9 November 2022 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… know about how nurses feel. Now, in driving a decade and more of public service cuts and real- time cuts to nurses' pay, the UK Government created a crisis. We can recruit into nursing, because, thankfully, we have … nurses, because they feel undervalued. And whilst that's not all about financial rewards—we're still waiting for the extension of section 25B of the safe staffing levels legislation, for example—we simply have to show, through …
6 December 2023 , Plenary
Short Debate: Increasing the use of public transport: Why young people should travel for free
… not the first time I've read that quote out in this Chamber, and whilst there has been an acknowledgement that there was an issue, Ruben, despite all his representation, was encouraged to wait for the outcome …
26 October 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
… time : applicants will not be disadvantaged when the sustainable farming scheme comes out if they plant additional trees now. I've been asked that question repeatedly by landowners right across Wales. You don't need to wait until … that might be suitable. I just want to say this, because it's something we say all the time : there will be a mandatory 10 per cent scheme requirement for additional trees to be planted, but …
8 November 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
… clear those longest waits . But it's not all about money; some of it is about efficiency working. So, we've brought a lot of the GIRFT teams in—Getting It Right First Time teams—who are all …
12 June 2024 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… had to wait for this Labour Government to pull a rabbit out of a hat, after having insisted for many months that there was no additional money available. All they did was waste time , delay, put unnecessary stress …
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 2
… decisions at the right time in the right place, and, in particular, communication with the people requiring the service themselves has not been brilliant. If people know what's happening whilst they're waiting for care …
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 the patient's voice
… and other ones who have been written to to ask if they still want to be on a waiting list, when it's very unlikely that someone doesn't need a hip operation any more, doesn't need … you still want treatment?' 'Of course I still want treatment. My hip's got worse in all this time . Why would you think I wouldn't? Do you think I've got a magic wand?' And there …
26 October 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Nuclear energy and the Welsh economy: Academics
… does make sense. I think the answer is potentially 'yes'. There is that element of the time differential as well between projects—that if a company's scope that they're delivering to a project is only securing … part of the construction phase, for instance, there may not be work for them to do while they wait for the next nuclear project to come along. So, the skills and that knowledge and capability may dissipate …
18 June 2025 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh Government's International Strategy inquiry - Evidence session with Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister
… not waiting until something actually happens, but having those plans in place beforehand. Do you think that there were enough lessons learned from Qatar in order to put them in place for the Euros this time …
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund
… really conscious of time , Chair, but perhaps one more question to both Sue and Jonathon. With that in mind then, do you think health boards perhaps should be more transparent with their waiting lists? Is there scope …
14 June 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
… for actually hours waiting , because of the way that the processes are, and the organisation of the way that the clinics are run. Even that in itself could be—. If people had the time and people invested …
18 October 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Welsh Government's response to the Chancellor's statement on the medium-term fiscal plan
… need. Well, surely that's just as true for the Welsh Government as well, and is it not time for you to be preparing an emergency budget here in Wales to refocus and to reallocate resources to help … most in need, as you say, and to do so for this financial year, of course, and not wait until next year? And finally, in relation to next year's budget, you've said it twice now …
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 the patient's voice
… and fear, actually—fear about whether things will return, when they will return, if they’ll return in time for me and my family’s situation, before it becomes critical. The four examples Helen’s just cited about … have to adapt their homes in a way that they didn’t want to because they’re just waiting on an operation to become more physically able. All of those questions have been in people’s minds, and …
30 November 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Wales COVID-19 inquiry special purpose committee
The Welsh Government has made its own decisions, and at times very different decisions, and it's entitled, of course, to do that, but I would hope the First Minister would accept there should be scrutiny and accountability … wait to commence their work. And it appears clear to me that the committee's work in identifying the potential gaps in the inquiry could easily take place alongside the UK's timeline, examining in real time the …
5 March 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… answered questions three times during the summer recess on the floor of the Senedd. Those answers are there on the record. Any further questions that the inquiry want to ask of me, I will wait for the inquiry …
24 September 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Winter preparedness in the NHS
… waiting for that long in the back of an ambulance to have admission to hospital. We have seen, across parts of the system, improvements, sometimes quite significant improvements, in relation to handover times . That is a positive, but …