21 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… public services have worsened over the past years under the leadership of the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, with waiting times in such disarray. Currently, there are four times as many Welsh residents waiting more than a year for … Shillabeer, the chief executive, Dyfed Edwards, and hopefully in time to come, a team, a good working team, with a good plan. We are left with record waiting lists and the subsequent consequences for survival rates. Life expectancy …
14 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
… are determined to reduce long waiting times and improve access to NHS services for everyone in Wales. And I meet regularly with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care to discuss a broad range of issues, including …
23 November 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
… about the state of the current NHS in Wales. Last month, we saw the worst ever A&E waiting times , the worst ever ambulance response times , the longest treatment waiting lists on record—nearly 9,500 people waiting … than the whole of England, and considering England is 16 times bigger, that's a concerning position. We've got one in four patients that are waiting over a year for treatment compared to one …
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Winter Pressures
… Cabinet Secretary, as you know, has been subject to considerable issues around its accident and emergency department and waiting times since that hospital opened. I'm very pleased that you've been able to visit a couple …
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… need and deserve. If they are serious about taking the pressure off Glan Clwyd Hospital and bringing down waiting times , then the Welsh Government must honour the original specifications for the hospital that were promised over a decade …
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… develop needs-led, early help models, and we recognise that more needs to be done in relation to waiting times and to deliver that post-diagnostic support. You are quite right: we need to make sure that the …
5 November 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… being used—and I quote—to maintain the situation delivered in March 2025 in terms of two-year waiting times , at least, while supporting a further reduction wherever possible. To explain the situation in March, there were …
27 November 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2026-27: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, the Minister for Children and Social Care and the Minister for Mental Health and Well-being.
… for planned care recovery. How will the Welsh Government ensure that infrastructure is not a barrier to reducing waiting times or to improve patient flow …
14 May 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session - panel 6
… for ophthalmology out-patient appointments, with some 41,500 patients waiting . I just wondered, given these figures, what specific actions are you taking to improve the timely care … high-risk patients, and how are you addressing the concerns of patients who are worried about the long waiting times and the potential risk to their vision as a result? Because we know that, when somebody has …
14 February 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with third sector organisations
… that the pressure on health and care services at this time is at an all- time high, with waiting times for hospital treatment reaching record levels, et cetera, and hospitals still dealing with COVID-19 patients, and patients …
22 January 2025 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Speech and language therapists
… have good professional support and training from experienced professional leaders. Llywydd, the NHS is working hard to reduce waiting times for therapies. Fourteen-week waits for children to access speech and language therapy in Wales have actually halved …
9 December 2025 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… wider than your constituency, will welcome the investment and the management of our waiting list, to bring those waiting times down by securing that resource and that clinical care within our health service, and also sourcing it from … but also, of course, he has agreed to come back in terms of the final resolution of the waiting list corrections that we have to bring forward as a result of Betsi Cadwaladr's review …
5 June 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… and colleagues will be coming in afterward. Looking at ophthalmology waits and patient care, given the serious consequences of delayed ophthalmology treatment that we've heard several times , which include avoidable sight loss … why does there appear to be a lack of urgency in implementing effective solutions to reduce the long waiting times for these services? I just wondered how you would respond to the frustration felt by both patients and …
5 June 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… just wondered if you can make a commitment at all today to publish detailed data on ophthalmology waiting times , so that patients can actually see the specific waits that are there for the various specialities …
9 December 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… have met with those people affected in the past. One of those key issues was the timely manner of getting disabled facilities put in place, and often they have to resort to disabled facilities grants, which are overspent … tracked processes for housing adaptations for people living with MND. The latest data also shows that the average wait times for small adaptations were 23 days for assessment and then 127 days for installation, and for medium adaptations …
17 December 2025 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The devolution settlement
… the Welsh Government has accumulated significant authority over health, education, transport, housing and the economy, yet NHS waiting times are worse than in England. Wales languishes at the bottom of the Programme for International Student Assessment education rankings …
17 December 2025 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… review of data processes for referral-to-treatment waiting times at Betsi Cadwaladr health board, which includes gathering data, ensuring quality and governance, has moved forward, and the health board is tackling the issues that have been raised …
17 December 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
… provided to Powys Teaching Health Board to allow them to buy capacity in England based on English waiting time targets, so that this completely unacceptable position and postcode lottery can end with urgency? Diolch …
17 December 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session 5
But you said, didn't you, Claire, that you don’t think waiting times are a problem, really …
16 September 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… waits for treatment, a lack of beds in our hospitals, difficulties getting GP and dental appointments, and unacceptable waiting times for diagnostic tests and treatment. Do you accept, First Minister, that, on Labour's watch, the Welsh NHS …