4 February 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Minister for Children and Social Care and Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing.
… opportunity, if I may, to put it on the record once again. We will all be aware that waiting times at a health board level are allocated on a provider footprint. So, it looks at what the provider …
7 May 2025 , Finance Committee
Bus Services (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
… changes to these components are expected to have an impact on actual journey times . So, for example, interchange wait times are assumed to be reduced under bus reform. Other changes are expected to have an impact on the …
3 February 2026 , Plenary
Group 11: Housing registers (Amendments 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88)
… respect of allocation of housing, is published in all local authority areas. This is an important and timely amendment. At present, while some data are collected and published on StatsWales, there are no data about the housing registers … recorded and presented. There are some examples of good practice already. Cardiff Council, for example, has developed a waiting times calculator for over a decade, which allows applicants to see information about the number of homes that are …
4 March 2026 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… words out—while acknowledging that many families are still waiting for far too long. What is the longest wait time you're currently aware of that we have here …
4 March 2026 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… you think you should have specific waiting time targets …
4 March 2026 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
What are the factors driving community paediatric waiting times …
17 December 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session 5
What I'm basing that statement on is national surveys, overall, in terms of waiting times for social care in Wales, which don’t indicate that we have particularly long waits from the point—and this is not …
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care on how the Welsh Government intends to address rising waiting times , and whether existing high-street audiology provision can be better integrated into NHS pathways and in a new …
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… term, in terms of the shortage in pathology specialist services, and those interim measures supporting families, and current waiting times and who is accountable, as you said, for those needs. So, thank you for raising that on behalf …
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… address the shortage, what interim measures are in place to support families facing delays, what the current waiting times are, and who is accountable for ensuring timely access to these essential services. With Senedd dissolution only weeks away …
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Will the First Minister make a statement on NHS waiting times in Powys? OQ63912
22 October 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Wales, especially for operations, they have a system in England where, if you've been waiting for a certain amount of time , they will offer you to go to other health boards across … England to actually get that treatment done, especially in orthopaedics. So, in Hereford, for example, there are long waiting times for orthopaedic treatment, but they are sending patients to other hospitals across England to get waiting lists down …
27 January 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times
… relation to cross-border care. Previously, we were able to access the provision of services that had shorter waiting times in the English hospitals. We're used to going over to Hereford, Shrewsbury and Telford, across Powys …
4 June 2025 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… the screen was blank, but my relative was told in triage that the day began with 16-hour waiting times , but they were now down to 11 hours. She ultimately waited seven. At a briefing in February … hospital for trolleys when she should be treating patients at times when ambulances were queuing up outside A&E. Although it is good news that two-year waits have fallen, they remain at 8,389 in Wales, compared …
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
… isn't it? It has to cope with those immediate pressures at accident and emergency, to get the waiting times down for elective surgery, to deal with delayed discharges, the impact on ambulance response times and …
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
… cataract figures—I was talking with my own health board recently—there have been massive improvements in the waiting times and the figures there, but, actually, we're not publicising it enough. And fortunately, there are really good …
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
… one-year waits ; the potential for big regional collaboration has been put forward that they could actually eliminate waiting times —almost eliminate them—in a matter of years. But that only comes about if the three health boards …
27 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
… three specific areas: women's health hubs, which we have opening right across Wales by March; the waiting-time figures, which we have been working consistently on, and I'm delighted to say are a testament to the … the £120 million invested by this Welsh Labour Government. There's a 23,400 drop in the overall waiting list in November, the biggest ever monthly fall, and it's the sixth consecutive month the waiting list has …
24 February 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… goalposts to hide their own failures. They've done it with two-year waits in the NHS, with waiting times in A&E, and now they're doing it again with apprenticeships. But the people of Wales won …
24 February 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… years, and the longest waiting lists have come down by 92 per cent since the peak. The average waiting time in Wales is 19 weeks. Do we want to improve on that? Absolutely. But we're absolutely heading …