21 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… the outcome of a further case notes review, which is due to report in March. Last year, waiting times for orthopaedics across Betsi Cadwaladr were considerable, with 2,472 patients waiting over 104 weeks. Waiting times for orthopaedic …
26 February 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
… South Wales Argus, wasn't there, about waiting list times having come down in Aneurin Bevan, but cancer waiting times are obviously not improving, or are slightly worse, and cancer is a strategic priority for the First Minister … interested in what strategy you think you can use in that area to try and bring cancer waiting lists down …
23 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… admitted that the NHS in Wales isn't performing well enough, as yet another record was reached on waiting times . According to your recent comments, these waiting times are your top priority, but there are other commitments you …
22 March 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Minister for Health and Social Services
… out, want to concentrate on solutions and what we do next. What are we doing to tackle ambulance waiting times ? What are we doing to tackle long waiting times for dentistry? And what are we doing to recruit … children and young people waiting months for mental health support, people waiting months and sometimes years for dental treatment, ambulance response times , targets being repeatedly missed. I've also disagreed with the Minister and other Cabinet members who …
3 July 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
… helping. I've mentioned several times in this Chamber about how private audiology can be used to reduce waiting times for hearing. This is done in England, Scotland and in Northern Ireland. We do this for general practitioners … improve outcomes for so many people and it would not cost the Welsh NHS any money whatsoever. High waiting times in NHS Wales may be NHS Wales's problem, but it is far from their fault …
1 October 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… remaining in hospital beds across Wales and the South Wales Central region are, as you've alluded to, waiting times for social care assessment, which make up around 42 per cent of cases, and waiting times for transfer …
16 January 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
… what I would expect to see as we move into next year is that the profile of waiting times moves from being something that is a system-wide challenge to one that is more likely to be particular … look at how that is spent overall in a way that helps us to continue to drive down waiting times , which is, obviously, the First Minister's top priority …
2 October 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Ophthalmology services
… the question of resource, which Russell George asked me to address, as part of our work to reduce waiting times and increase access to specialist services, we have committed an additional £30 million every year to move more … individual health board plans to improve the efficiency and productivity of cataract and glaucoma pathways. Dirprwy Lywydd, cutting waiting times and ensuring that people have timely access to care to save sight is crucially important …
13 October 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Update on winter preparedness
… talking about winter preparedness today. Winter is something that has affected humanity every year since the dawn of time , and so it blows my mind that there still hasn't been proper planning in the Welsh NHS … would be unable to ensure pulmonary rehabilitation within two to four weeks after an exacerbation, because their current wait time for these services is between 20 and 36 weeks. So, whilst I agree that we need …
30 January 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… statements? Can I request the first from the health Minister, on the delivery of emergency services and ambulance waiting times in Wales? I've been made aware of a constituent whose relative had to wait 26 hours for … vital that some time is now made available, I think, to discuss emergency health services, and ambulance waiting times in particular, so that Members and the public can understand what the Welsh Government is doing to improve services …
22 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… per cent, one in four people are waiting over a year. But none of those lists contain the waiting times for dentistry. The waits have become so chronic that we are seeing people having to fork out hundreds … Llandudno, Penmaenmawr, Colwyn Bay, Caernarfon, and, on each and every occasion, he could not get registered, because the waiting times were in excess of two years at all those practices. Now, when we see dental treatments falling …
13 October 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Update on winter preparedness
… because I know you do like targets, Cabinet Minister—publish measurable targets, reducing ambulance handover delays, emergency department waiting times , and delayed discharges, so that we can actually judge whether your Government's plans are actually delivering, and …
13 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… more co-ordinated, reducing the need for patients to chase information and so on. In terms of those waiting times , the key thing is that it is the patients that we look after and make sure that …
13 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… our sights high, but we need that kind of target. We know about the targets on the longest waiting times in the NHS. We have a very clear path towards raising standards in numeracy, literacy and …
13 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… year. And in north Wales, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has the worst performing emergency departments and longest waiting times in the country, yet its chief executive is earning a salary of £262,500 per year …
13 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… are you taking, working with the UK Government, Ofgem and network operators, to ensure that connection costs and waiting times don't prevent these projects, be they community or larger scale, from progressing? We need that grid infrastructure …
24 September 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Our priority for iechyd da, a healthier Wales, is to cut waiting times for NHS services. We've made clear to health boards what our expectations for reductions in waiting times are, and they're set out …
14 December 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… are so many things that I could pursue: the winter challenges; the staff recruitment and retention crisis; treatment waiting times in A&E; ambulance waiting times ; the future of the air ambulance; strikes; I could have included the …
7 February 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The health service
… challenge facing their health board, that is, in terms of patients and staff, and the example of ambulance waiting times clearly highlights this, I think. Back in February 2023, when the Minister's priorities for the NHS were … quality of care will be normalised in Wales. A year since the publication of the priorities, with ambulance waiting times having deteriorated and my local health board now subject to escalation and intervention measures across three different areas …
12 October 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
NHS Finances: evidence session with NHS Wales health boards
… you look at the work that was done last year on, for example, trying to reduce waiting times in out-patients, there was money put in to that. I think it's fair to say, though, that …