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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Improving cancer outcomes and reducing cancer waiting times is a priority for this Government. We are investing in cancer services and working with the health boards, supported by the NHS executive, to drive sustainable improvement for cancer waiting …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
… needs. One of the concerns that's been raised with me in north Wales is, of course, the waiting times for neurodevelopmental assessments. We know from evidence that was given by the Minister for Mental Health and Well … being made available by the Welsh Government to try and get those waiting lists down, but the current waiting time in north Wales is five years. Five years. That is a huge impact on a child if they …
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Questions to the First Minister
… difficulties that they face in securing these adaptations. People with MND shouldn't have to spend their precious time waiting for their homes to be made safe and accessible for them. So, Prif Weinidog, what steps are the …
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Questions to the First Minister
… previous administrations were failing on more than any it was—and it was well meant—'deal with the waiting times now, as quickly as possible'. It wasn't particularly successful, but also was not addressing the long-term …
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Questions to the First Minister
… the pressures; we all understand that. I actually wish you well in your endeavours trying to bring these waiting times down, because at the root of all of these waiting time statistics are individuals. And, importantly as well …
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Short Debate: Thinking differently: The Women's Institute campaign to support autistic and ADHD women and girls
… the young person will be notified if they've been accepted onto the waiting list. But the average waiting time in the area is 18 months, which is down from the previous year, but is still 18 months … she realised that she was probably an ADHDer, and pursued a private diagnosis in order to avoid the waiting time. In her mid 40s, having raised children and had a meaningful career, she paid. When asked why and …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 3
About the information? So, they're reported through the eye care groups, waiting times. Some health boards communicate through primary care optometry groups—so, for example, the optometry liaison groups in some health boards. We have certain areas … meeting regionally. So, in south-east Wales, we work regionally in the primary care part of it, and waiting times can be communicated and distributed through the network of the regional optometric committees—the statutory bodies to represent …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with cancer organisations
… back up everything that Gerard has mentioned. Not to throw any more stats at you, but the waiting times across the board for cancer are really poor, and it's something that we are continually concerned and worried … that this is a useful one, the analysis that has been done at CRUK shows that on diagnostic waiting times, going back to September 2022, over 16,000 people were waiting over eight weeks for the key endoscopy …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… said. What I know is that, in relation to breast cancer specifically, four health boards achieved the cancer waiting time target, including Swansea bay health board, which achieved a performance of over 80 per cent. Of course … which is supported by the NHS executive, to work with health boards and NHS trusts to recover cancer waiting time performance for the five cancers with the lowest performance rates. I would say that, in relation to breast …
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Short Debate: Dis-jointed care: Tackling joint and bone health in Wales
… will place on our health and social care services. We can’t seem to get a grip on waiting times despite the doubling of the health and care budget over the past quarter of a century. The average … median wait for hip surgery was 452 days in Wales. Swansea had the longest wait times for hip replacements with an average 668 days' wait. Ninety-six thousand five-hundred patients were waiting for trauma and orthopaedic surgery …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The health service
… just imagine had we not put them in place. I've been asked to give an update on waiting times, and the fact is that there's been a huge increase in the number of referrals, both for … than a year ago and it has reduced every single month for the last 20 months. The average waiting time now is 20 weeks, compared to 29 weeks at its peak—so, again, improvements all the time. Huw …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Stroke
… clinical response model is a valid and safe way of delivering ambulance services, and that the length of time waiting for an ambulance response in the amber category does not appear to correlate with worse outcomes. However … that amber performance remains a concern. Since COVID-19, amber response times have deteriorated significantly, with a median waiting time of one hour and 35 minutes in September—last month—2022. Comparing Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust amber …
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
… getting to my last question, Deputy Presiding Officer. In regard to the A&E waiting times and many waiting up to 36 hours, can you please give us details about your plan to support our fantastic NHS staff … terms of bringing down those waiting times, and the additional beds that are needed to stop the backlog that we've seen to the extent we have in terms of ambulances waiting outside A&E in hospitals …
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Second Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
… think that is one of the things that I am there to do, and not just with waiting times, but with all proposals for expenditure. I would always have expected, at an official level, that my team would … sums of money involved, that I would be directly involved, and there's £50 million being provided for waiting times work this year. That sum of money was the result of some very detailed work that was done …
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 6
… satisfied there was adequate funding next year to allow in-roads to be made into waiting lists and waiting times. Do you think that's fair and that the budget is going to allow you to get inroads … into waiting lists and waiting times …
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Questions to the First Minister
… said she was breathing down the neck of health boards to try and get on top of the waiting times. Yet, we saw those waiting times nearly hit 750,000 episodes of care being waited for by the …
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Questions to the First Minister
… will benefit them. As I said, I believe that it is a sensible and progressive way of addressing waiting times here in Wales, but I'd like to see the substance of it, otherwise people will just look … launched at the Labour Party conference and, this time in six months, we'll still have those chronic waiting times here in Wales …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
… you've highlighted, additional money was announced by the Cabinet Secretary for health to really focus on those waiting times, and my colleague Sarah Murphy had also announced that there was a design event, where we worked with … the NHS executive before Christmas to look at what we can do about those waiting times for ND services. Because the numbers are so large, I think there is an acknowledgement that we can't keep doing the …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
… interested in that money. Everybody talks about the waiting times, don't they, in orthopaedic care and also for cancers; they’re the big areas. But there are also other areas I'd touch on—fertility, for example … about these other disciplines. Is there a risk sometimes that perhaps those other areas could slip behind on waiting times because they're not perhaps given the focus of, say, what orthopaedics and cancers have, but those areas …
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Questions to the First Minister
… given to other colleagues this afternoon, which don't inspire confidence that your Government has a grip on waiting times here in Wales. Yesterday morning, I was approached by a constituent who was referred to the Cardiff Heath … hospital for a neurology inspection on an urgent basis. He was told that the waiting time was 122 weeks. Bear that in mind when you have ‘urgent’ written on that referral. I know you won’t comment …