, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… That meant that we couldn't invest in these things, and now we are able, for the first time, to do that. But that's no thanks to you, and today you won't be voting for … Betsi is challenged, but it is important, I think, to note that 58 per cent fewer people are waiting for over two years for treatment, there's an 82 per cent reduction in those waiting over three years …
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: The Children and Young People’s Plan
… that the percentage of patients who receive a first appointment within four weeks had fallen to an all-time low of 22 per cent. The statistics are staggering and indicate a failure to get to grips with the … affecting children and young people in Wales. Let's be clear, nearly four in five young people are waiting over a month for a first mental health appointment, and this is not good enough. We all receive heartbreaking …
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 6
… like oil tankers and you don't just suddenly change direction. I think it would be fairer to wait until the end of the process before really giving judgment on it, but I think I certainly would hope … then a more significant shift towards the issues that you've mentioned, such as childcare and part-time working, and other issues such as public transport as well …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
… constituency, since it began almost four years ago. The group has overcome many hurdles during that time, from finding a permanent home, lease negotiations, and being set up with the Charity Commission. It has really benefitted from the … its members. The capacity of the group is at 26 members, and it has got 15 on the waiting list. I met with the group before Christmas, and I could see how much these meetings—how much these …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 1
… our work calling for more social homes. I think we need to remember how the numbers on the waiting list are also fuelled by the cost-of-living crisis and generally the instability in our housing market and … recent reports the impact on children and their families of staying in temporary accommodation for long periods of time. They are staying in temporary accommodation for long periods of time because of the lack of social homes for …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… have a backlog of the sort that we have seen—and we've heard this afternoon about people waiting in pain to get the treatment that they need—I make no apology for the fact that we will … the private sector here in Wales in that short-term way to erode those backlogs. At the same time, we want to build up the capacity of the health service itself, so that in the long run …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… needs to, in tackling the backlog in this and in other areas, then that is less time, energy and resource available to it to be recalibrating the way it delivers services so that it can deliver those … able to achieve is to get the system back into balance by reducing the overall size of the waiting list very dramatically, by bringing down the long waits very dramatically. And so, I'm confident that progress will …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health
… direction, I admit, by Welsh Ministers to deal with mental health, but the dire state of our NHS waiting lists is hindering any meaningful progress. We all need to be honest about the scale of the issue and … acknowledge that increased investment into mental health support is so fundamental to the well-being of society. The time for hollow rhetoric about support for mental health is over. We need more commitment and action, so I urge …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… our care sector at the moment. That's why I'm spending a huge amount of my time working with my colleague Julie Morgan at the moment, trying to see what we can do to address the system … care so we can improve that flow through the hospitals so we won't be getting people waiting outside hospitals in ambulances. But we won't be able to fix that unless we fix the back door …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Improving Leadership and Performance at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… mentioned, with cancer diagnostic and cancer treatment, with handover of the ambulances and with the two-year waits. So, they will be helping immediately to identify what needs to be done and direct the work in order … spend and whether or not we would be dealing with the backlog. I think I've mentioned numerous times, Dirprwy Lywydd, in this Chamber, that the urgent issues around the backlog are a priority of ours. The backlog …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
… For many people, despite the messaging that it's a priority, it's a case of sit and wait until you get your invite. That's the reality here. So, that's some of the messaging issues that … opening hours. You spoke about that in your statement today, but I don't think you mentioned the times. I think in the briefing today, if I'm right, you mentioned increasing opening times from 9 a.m …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Health board governance
… Grange regularly make headlines for all the wrong reasons. Patients are having to face unsafe corridor care, long waits for urgent treatment, and all the pain and anxiety that that entails. This is not the fault of front … how badly the stresses and strains of the system are affecting the workforce. In 2025, 279,889 full-time equivalent days were lost in Aneurin Bevan due to staff sickness. That is the equivalent of 766 years …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
… waiting lists for treatment, people who are not able to live their lives as normal due to waiting for treatment and surgeries is almost impossible to quantify. Where do you draw the line? The lost hours of work … due to all of the above, loss of mental health due to the inability to plan for better times, loss of confidence in their skills as they slowly deteriorate, not able to do what they should be able …
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government - UK Procurement Bill Legislative Consent Memorandum
… waiting for the House of Lords to finish their scrutiny. The next committee sessions aren't likely to start until the middle of October, so we're expecting the House of Lords to commit their reports sort … November, middle of November time. We would expect to do another supplementary LCM when we get to that stage …
, Plenary
Topical Questions
… think that to think about reorganisation in the middle of the pandemic, when we have the longest waiting lists in history, would be a distraction. I think it's really important that we focus on what matters … they want is to be treated well and to make sure that they get seen in a very timely manner. I think also it's really important that we talk up where Betsi's doing well. They …
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Prostate cancer strategy
… been a very tough experience for our family, especially, at one point, we had an agonising wait of seven days to find out whether or not it had actually spread to his bones. I'm relieved … beginning to turn the page and move on from a very difficult chapter for us. Early diagnosis and timely treatment were essential for my father, as they are for all men affected by prostate cancer here in Wales …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare? - evidence session 11
… want to be waiting around for a nurse to be available, sitting in the nurse's room waiting, as they can't cope with that. Whereas it's best placed, as it would be in a mainstream school … are in that classroom to be trained to be able to give that child their medication at a time that's convenient for them, given by the people they know and are around all the time …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Tory proportions. She told the BBC she has a strategy, but where is it? When will we see waiting lists in Wales begin to fall? Keir Starmer says the Tories broke the NHS in England and … that she and her Labour predecessors broke ours, and that we need urgent reform, something Labour has shown, time and time again, it's unable …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution: Priorities for Government Effectiveness and Constitution
… time, that an ambulance turns up on time, that they can get their treatment on time in a hospital. They want to make sure that the next generation have high-quality education, and then the opportunity to get … want to see clear targets, clear milestones on the way to delivering the elimination of two-year waits in the NHS, then one-year waits in the NHS. We want to make sure that there are clear targets …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Housing support for vulnerable people: Evidence session 1
… couple of years to see that there's been investment in the housing support grant for the first time. And I feel that we're starting to get to the place where the housing support grant should … actually makes in communities across Wales. Obviously, there's the homelessness legislation coming in, and we're waiting to hear more about that, and in terms of the approach and how the housing support grant will play into …