31 January 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… aware that £12 million was announced in the summer to deal with the backlog around ND waiting times , and also to support the improvement of ND services. In addition to that, Julie Morgan has also set … been engaging with stakeholders, including people with lived experience, and there is an action plan to improve those waiting times . For my part, I also recognise that our NEST/NYTH framework is also a key mechanism to support those …
31 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Cancer Services Improvement Plan
… intentions. One of the key areas in the quality statement is delivering care in line with the cancer waiting time . This means that 75 per cent of patients requiring cancer treatment should start definitive treatment within 62 days … the cancer pathway—unique in the UK—capturing more people earlier on in their pathway without pausing the waiting time clock. The second is the historic growth in demand for cancer investigation and treatment, caused by our population …
14 June 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… know that the pandemic has had a profound effect on our health service, with waiting times proving a real problem. I welcome the announcement made by the health Minister earlier this year ensuring that, by 2025, no-one … than a year for treatment in more specialities, but we need to see more urgent action on cancer waiting times . A constituent contacted my office this month. They were told they had an urgent cancer referral following …
14 June 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… invested heavily in radiotherapy equipment and we'd introduced the UK's first complete overhaul of cancer waiting times . So, the Minister has made it very clear to NHS staff, who are continuing to work incredibly hard … respond to the waiting times , what she expects from them, and how we've increased training places to support the NHS, going forward. And we know now that all health boards have initiated rapid diagnostic centres—one-stop …
20 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Well, that is an unacceptable amount of time to wait , and I'm going to encourage you to get in touch with the health Secretary to take up that particular individual case. Look, we have put a substantial … England. That's higher than Scotland, higher than England and higher than Northern Ireland. The general average waiting time in the NHS in Wales for treatment is 19 weeks, so we are seeing improvement when it comes …
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
… you. I just wanted to note, of course, that the health service is full of targets, and the waiting time for treatment is the foremost of them. Of course, in cancer, there's that 62-day threshold before …
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
… start and we'll go to Nigel Williams, who's going to talk about planned care and some waiting times …
15 March 2022 , Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22
… needed from the Treasury on the amount of funding received within financial years, as well as the timing of such transfers. However, the committee accepts that it's not enough to point the finger solely at the … was encouraging to hear from the Minister that this additional funding is already having an impact, particularly on waiting times , tangible details were scarce. We therefore recommend that the Welsh Government sets out its targets for reducing waiting …
19 October 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
… only the individuals that have actually come forward and have been seen, so I don't feel those waiting times are completely reflective of all the need that is out there at this minute in time . I think … because of geography, because of other issues within certain health boards, I think you will see fluctuations in waiting times on that perspective …
28 September 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Gynaecological cancer
… restore the situation. I can assure you that there is no need for a review of gynaecological waiting times . We look at the data on a monthly basis, on an all-Wales basis, and with individual health boards … pathway, those who are informed that they don't have cancer and those who need treatment, the median waiting time for the pathway to discover whether they have been diagnosed with cancer or not is 36 days …
9 November 2022 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… for over two years, the longest ambulance red-calls responses on record, and the worst accident and emergency waiting times in Britain. So, the last thing that we need in Wales, and the people of Wales need … action to a close; what effect do you believe that the strike action will have on those long waiting times for emergency and elective treatment, which I've just outlined; and, finally, what will the cost …
15 October 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Inquiry into gynaecological cancers: follow up with Welsh Government
Thank you. Good morning, Cabinet Secretary and Minister. I want to ask about waiting list times , if that's possible, because as the chief nursing officer said, gynaecological … cancers were made a priority by the Government in 2023, and what we're seeing is that the waiting times for gynaecological cancers are the worst of any type of cancer. I think that for the last target …
23 June 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Delivering on our priorities: Reducing waiting times and strengthening primary care
… well for his statement today. I'm interested in hearing some of the priorities, obviously, on reducing waiting times and strengthening primary care across Wales. Due to the hard work of the NHS staff and, of course, the … needs to confirm, with some urgency, I have to say, a date on eradicating two-year waits . We are hearing different time frames, and I think the public deserve to have honesty on this point. Now, in terms …
16 November 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… confidence to people. And one of the things that people raise with me isn't simply the waiting times , but also the structure of a service to deliver the sort of response that people require. You will … and across the country. You'll also be aware that my constituency has one of the more difficult waiting times , not just in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, but elsewhere as well. So, can you provide the reassurance …
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… the recovery plan, I noticed that Nick Bennett, the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, today talks about NHS waiting times in Wales causing a public health crisis. So, it's certainly my view that we are a long … not an achievement at all. What we do need to do is absolutely focus on significantly reducing the waiting times backlog, and of course the Welsh NHS and health boards should be supported at every level to eat …
2 December 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with allied health professionals
… filling posts, basically because, again, of budget constraints. And this is having an impact on, obviously, efficiency, on waiting times , and to some degree on the quality of the service that way, because the longer treatment waiting times …
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering our well-being objectives
… officers who do so much to keep our communities safe. We said that we would address the long waiting times that have built up during the pandemic and we have put in place an ambitious catch-up programme … backed by £1 billion-worth of funding. And we're now beginning to see reductions in those long waiting times for treatment, for diagnostic tests and for therapies. In education, we set out our ambitious renew and reform …
8 February 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Long COVID
… Swansea Bay University Health Board last week. The information we have from health boards is that the average waiting time for people to be seen in long COVID services is 23 days. This compares to the current … week waiting time for access to the specialist long COVID clinics that have been set up in areas of England. Data from Digital Health and Care Wales show that, by January, just over 2,400 people had been …
15 September 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… using that as a backstop and instead building up the kind of capacity that can make reductions in waiting times and a smoother passage of patients through the system more sustainable. I'd point to that as being …
15 September 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
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