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Debate: Draft Budget 2022-23
… Welsh NHS that has resulted in several unwanted records during COVID, such as the highest accident and emergency waiting times on record, the slowest ambulance response times on record and the longest waiting times on record; the ever …
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Ophthalmology services
… sight loss. I can't say that I was suicidal, but there were many times where I genuinely questioned how much more waiting and how many more setbacks I could endure. That experience showed me something that statistics … beyond grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this debate. Of course we need to reduce waiting times and of course we need more capacity, and we should be looking at surgical hubs, centres of excellence and more …
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Short Debate: The Spot Leukaemia campaign and access to blood tests
… set out in writing in the NHS planning framework, and we are working hard to improve cancer services waiting times and patient outcomes in our dealings with health boards. Cancer services are under enormous pressure, caused by long … they don't have cancer or starting treatment. We've seen some recent improvements in the overall cancer waiting time performance at 58 per cent, for haematological cancers at 68 per cent, and acute leukaemia at 100%. But …
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
… the statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services that steps are being taken to improve the waiting times for assessments with regard to neurodevelopmental conditions. An increasing number of constituents in Arfon are contacting me to complain … correspondence with us as an office in Arfon, that there is between a two- and three-year waiting time for assessment, and that 2,645 children are on the health board’s waiting list for an assessment …
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Epilepsy services
… has no dedicated neurology service whatsoever. The inevitable consequences of this stark lack of capacity is these high waiting times that have been referred to for routine appointments. And that has become the norm in Wales, and … noting all of these figures, we should please try and keep that in mind. NICE guidelines recommend a waiting time of no longer than two weeks for patients with a suspected first seizure. The fact is that that …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with Public Health Wales
… that scheme. It's not reaching the most deprived groups, and capacity is severely stretched, leading to long waiting times. So, it's a big concern if you're only reaching a relatively small number but capacity … supported, maybe, in a different way, to reach those most important people in deprived communities, to shorten waiting times and …
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Impact of migraine on children and young people
… for example, patients have seen benefit from the opening of the Walton Centre in Holywell. It's reduced waiting times for patients with serious neurological conditions. But, unfortunately, the same services aren't available in all parts … that's a well-rehearsed story, of course. And, generally speaking, there are huge problems in terms of waiting times, the resources available to patients, including children. People can be waiting up to two years for treatment …
, Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
… made whether to proceed to treatment or not. There are the cancer performance targets, there are the waiting times for outpatient appointments, and then there are the treatment targets. And they are the right things to be measuring … that time isn't the only factor we need to be thinking about when we're considering waiting times …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
… our A&E departments is crucial, not only for the individual patient, because we know that waiting longer times in emergency departments is directly related to worse patient outcomes, but also for the entire healthcare system. Having accurate … for-fewer-than-four-hours category misrepresents the true picture when it comes to A&E performance and waiting time. Now, the Welsh Government are also completely missing the point of the royal college's concerns and recommendations …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health
… complacent about suicide and self-harm. That is why we are developing the new strategies. On children’s waiting times, latest performance figures for local primary mental health services for June show 69.9 per cent of mental health … that health boards meet those targets on a sustainable basis. They’ve all developed trajectories that include tackling waiting times and improving performance, and these are monitored rigorously on a monthly basis by the NHS executive. I absolutely …
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Report: Care Home Commissioning
… can improve discharge rates to care homes, then we'll be freeing up hospital beds, bettering waiting times in emergency departments and playing our part in improving ambulance waiting times. I'm not trying to say that this …
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The National Diagnostic Strategy
… the advance copy, of course, as well? Anything that can help improve diagnostic services and, ultimately, bring down waiting times will certainly be supported by me and the Welsh Conservatives. I think, in terms of bringing down waiting …
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Statement by the First Minister: 'New Ambition for Wales: Programme for Government 2026-2030'
… and there's only so much rehashing that you can do with the same sorry document so many times to try and polish what many people would describe as something that I won't refer to. Because that … some delivery for the people of Wales. And it's not going very well so far, is it? Waiting times up, PISA scores down, your grandstanding on independence really not making much of a difference, no matter how …
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… you'll be aware that demand for an autism assessment continues to be high in west Wales, with waiting times of up to three years. Indeed, I understand that the health board met with Welsh Government officials … what support the Welsh Government is offering to Hywel Dda University Health Board to help it reduce waiting times for an autism assessment? And can you also tell us how the Welsh Government is supporting children and their …
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Planned Care Recovery Plan
… planned care here in Wales. I am today publishing a plan that will help to reduce the long waiting times that have unfortunately built up during the pandemic. It will ensure that people get the right treatment the … continue to affect the amount and type of planned care that the NHS can provide. Before the pandemic, waiting times were steadily falling across Wales. Today, unfortunately, too many people are waiting far too long for treatment, and …
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Questions to the First Minister
… Local primary mental health support services figures show that Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has the second-worst waiting times in Wales, with just under two thirds of adults waiting less than 28 days for an assessment … three are waiting 28 days for an assessment. These delays are just not acceptable, First Minister. Alongside these waiting times, one of my major concerns related to services in the Vale of Clwyd is the Ablett Unit facilities …
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Audit Wales Brief: NHS accounts 2025-26
… remember that legislation coming through the Senedd and Mark Drakeford, I think, who was the Minister at the time, had high hopes for it. Clearly, it's not working. As auditors, are you able to point to good … and yet record amounts of money are going into the health boards, and yet poorer outcomes with longer waiting times are the result …
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First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
… two-year investment—£100 million this year—enables a more effective dealing with the build-up of waiting times and people on waiting lists, so that there's better management of waiting lists and how they are dealt …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Accounting practices at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… the damning report into vascular services, and quite often speak about the Welsh Government's failure to reduce waiting times at Glan Clwyd Hospital's A&E department, safe discharges, and the failure to build north Denbighshire community … hospital in Rhyl, and, of course, reducing waiting times for patients across north Wales. But, in addition to this, we seem to have entered into a whole new ball game of learning of the alleged widescale fraud …
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Endoscopy services: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Thank you, Chair. Public Health Wales, in their evidence to the committee, have said the average waiting time for colonoscopy services, the first screening, is 8.5 weeks, but one particular health board, their waiting time is 20 weeks …