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Question WQ94108Tabled 20 September 2024Answered 27 September 2024

To the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

Will the Cabinet Secretary confirm that when the evidence review into establishing rapid diagnostics …

Answer: … Diagnostics Board in 2023. It highlighted the potential benefits of diagnostic centres in terms of reducing waiting times and pressure on hospitals but recognised further research was needed. This review did not take into …

Question WQ94107Tabled 20 September 2024Answered 27 September 2024

To the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

Will the Cabinet Secretary confirm whether the evidence review into establishing rapid diagnostics hubs …

Answer: … Diagnostics Board in 2023. It highlighted the potential benefits of diagnostic centres in terms of reducing waiting times and pressure on hospitals but recognised further research was needed. This review did not take into …

Question WQ94077Tabled 20 September 2024Answered 26 September 2024

To the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

Why are over five thousand people still waiting over two years for orthopedic surgery …

Answer: … Although the overall size of the orthopaedics waiting list has increased since April 2022, the median waiting time has reduced by 20%. The NHS Executive, through the orthopaedic clinical implementation network, is continuing …

Question WQ93899Tabled 11 September 2024Answered 13 September 2024

To the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

What is the longest waiting period recorded by a patient seeking treatment in the …

Answer: … information requested. Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is responsible for recording data on emergency department waiting times …

Question WQ84538Tabled 15 February 2022Answered 25 February 2022

To the Minister for Health and Social Services

What measures are being introduced to improve rural ambulance waiting times, given that residents in Powys are reportedly having to wait 8hrs for category 1 emergency ambulance call outs …

Question WQ93705Tabled 14 August 2024Answered 27 August 2024

To the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of the adequacy of cataract and eye …

Answer: … from the pandemic. We have supported NHS organisations to increase capacity and to help address long waiting times – the number of ophthalmology open pathways over 104 weeks is 56% lower in May 2024 compared …

Question WQ93704Tabled 14 August 2024Answered 27 August 2024

To the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

What is the Welsh Government doing to reduce waiting lists for cataract treatment?

Answer: … from the pandemic. We have supported NHS organisations to increase capacity and to help address long waiting times – the number of ophthalmology open pathways over 104 weeks is 56% lower in May 2024 compared …

Question WQ92048Tabled 13 March 2024Answered 20 March 2024

To the Minister for Health and Social Services

What is the Welsh Government doing to help hospitals in Wales to bring down the waiting times for specialist child and adolescent mental health services …

Question WQ92014Tabled 13 March 2024Answered 19 March 2024

To the Minister for Health and Social Services

What action is the Minister taking to improve diagnosis times for pupils with neurodivergent …

Answer: … making services sustainable. To that purpose, the Neurodivergence Improvement Programme is addressing immediate pressures on assessment waiting times by developing sustainable integrated needs-led services with a skilled and resilient workforce, which includes supporting …

Question WQ84467Tabled 8 February 2022Awaiting answer

To the Minister for Health and Social Services

What action is the Minister taking to reduce ambulance waiting times after being contacted on 27 January 2022 by my constituent who waited over eleven hours for an ambulance for her daughter …

Question WQ92572Tabled 23 April 2024Answered 26 April 2024

To the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

How is the Welsh Government working with the private sector to tackle waiting lists …

Answer: … the NHS should explore every opportunity to increase capacity to support their recovery plans to reduce waiting times, this may, where required include the use of the private sector …

Question WQ92238Tabled 20 March 2024Answered 12 April 2024

To the First Minister

… Minister be meeting with representatives of Swansea Bay University Health Board to discuss the A&E waiting times at Morriston Hospital …

Question WQ92154Tabled 18 March 2024Answered 28 March 2024

To the Cabinet Secretary for Education

What is the current average waiting time from when a school requests an additional learning needs diagnosis to the first appointment with a special educational needs coordinator …

Question WQ92153Tabled 18 March 2024Answered 28 March 2024

To the Cabinet Secretary for Education

What is the current average waiting time between an additional learning need being identified in a pupil to the creation of an individual learning plan …

Question WQ91399Tabled 19 February 2024Answered 27 February 2024

To the Minister for Health and Social Services

What progress has been made since the Minister's officials met with health boards …

Answer: … care services. The Welsh Government continues to hold the NHS accountable against the commitment to reduce waiting times for the people of Wales and therefore reducing the risk of sight loss and irreversible harm …

Question WQ91398Tabled 19 February 2024Answered 27 February 2024

To the Minister for Health and Social Services

Will the Minister provide an update on the National Clinical Strategy for Ophthalmology which …

Answer: … care services. The Welsh Government continues to hold the NHS accountable against the commitment to reduce waiting times for the people of Wales and therefore reducing the risk of sight loss and irreversible harm …

Question WQ89236Tabled 4 October 2023Answered 11 October 2023

To the Minister for Health and Social Services

… the number of people waiting per week for predictive genetic testing and confirm the average current waiting time in Wales …

Question WQ89073Tabled 14 September 2023Answered 26 September 2023

To the Minister for Health and Social Services

What interventions has the Welsh Government commissioned from the NHS Executive to support Cwm …

Answer: … Health Board was escalated to Targeted Intervention for quality issues relating to performance associated with long waiting times following concerns about urgent and emergency care, including ambulance handovers, planned care, cancer and performance against …

Question WQ83752Tabled 1 November 2021Answered 9 November 2021

To the Minister for Health and Social Services

Further to WQ83490, will the Minister outline whether those patients diagnosed with blood cancers …

Answer: … would be closed. The watch and wait period could be significantly longer than a 62-day waiting time pathway and it would be inappropriate to maintain an open pathway. The decision to prescribe any …

Question WQ90115Tabled 11 December 2023Answered 19 December 2023

To the Minister for Health and Social Services

How many GP practices in Wales offer contraceptive coil fitting?

Answer: … give definitive numbers for those on coil-fitting waiting lists or to calculate an average waiting time. My officials are aware of the challenges faced by reproductive health post-pandemic. A task and finish …