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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on ambulance waiting times across Wales? OQ63353
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Child and adolescent mental health
… longer than the target time for assessments. Clearly, these problems are historic. Before COVID-19 hit in Wales, waiting times for children and young people were already long, and concerns had been raised by the Children, Young People …
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Debate on a Statement: The Outline Draft Budget 2026-27
… more activity into the housing market, encourages more people to own their own homes and helps enable first-time buyers to call a place their own. We know that cutting the basic rate of income tax … this important business. In health and public services, we would declare a health emergency, commit to reducing waiting times, introduce a seven-day GP guarantee and establish an NHS leadership register so failed managers can't just …
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Questions to the First Minister
… would have seen the trail of experience that people were having at the Heath hospital's A&E waiting time room. On your way in, you were greeted by a pile of vomit on the floor, a mountain … vending machine that had three items of food in there to provide some relief for the times that people were waiting. Also, there were broken chairs in the environment, which the photographs attest to. This really does show …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
… that we've been ready to roll out the booster vaccination for a long time in Wales. We've been waiting for that JCVI advice for a very long time, which is why we are able, now … into those hospitals and others around Wales because of the community spread of COVID. You are quite right; waiting times are extremely difficult at the moment. Actually, a lot of the pressure on the NHS at the moment …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
… their best, but this is children's life chances. We've invested about £13 million again in neurodiversity waiting times, but we've got to make progress, because a year in the life of a child …
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Questions to the First Minister
… through. [Interruption.] You don't like it, but it's true. We're investing £120 million in cutting waiting times. And there are people on those lists that have incredibly complex and difficult situations. A lot of them … situations. What we did see in June was a 27 per cent decrease in the number of people waiting more than two years for treatment. That is something that I think should be celebrated. Also, the number …
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
… waited over five hours for an ambulance to arrive, and there were no ambulances at all in my constituency. Minister, I have raised this on a number of occasions, we've debated it here a number of times … new measures have you put in, and the Welsh ambulance service put in, to try and get ambulance waiting times under control. Because people waiting eight hours plus is just simply not good enough, and I'm sure …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Inquiry into gynaecological cancers: follow up with Welsh Government
… fair to say that there’s a mixed picture in terms of progress. If you look at the waiting times for access to treatment, clearly that is not where it needs to be. There’s been some improvement …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 3
… more patients that require surgical intervention and waiting lists are high. Similarly, ophthalmology, if there’s only one theatre, it doesn’t matter if we’re freeing up the time of ophthalmologists; if there’s only one eye … hospital, they can only operate with a fixed amount of capacity, which has an impact on waiting times as well …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
… say in the budget, but I think that the Welsh Government has been very clear for a long time on its priorities and the things that they would wish the UK Government to be delivering for Wales. Clearly … invest in those services, because we're clearly seeing the benefits. Colleagues will have seen the improvements to waiting times in health, for example. That didn't happen by accident; that happened because the UK Government decided …
, Petitions Committee
New petitions
… ending and the service takes pressure off the A+E units in west Wales which have the worst waiting times in Wales.' So, this was submitted by Mark Gibbins, with 2,797 signatures. Joel, do you want …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Cabinet Secretary, I'm glad that you've mentioned waiting times, because one area of improvement that is very much needed is in relation to bone density scans, or DEXAs, as they're more commonly known, as constituents … have contacted me to say that they have been waiting for over a year to receive their results. I appreciate that specialist scans can take some time to gather results and to be fully interpreted, but …
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Short Debate: Bridging the rural divide: Women’s health in Wales
… that. Early next month, I am also meeting with the gynaecology clinical implementation network. Delyth Jewell has, many times, raised with me the issue of women’s pain and the normalisation of pain in women’s health. And … the joint commissioning committee, to develop specialist services for tertiary endometriosis care, which should truly bring down that waiting time that we have. And we have made a commitment to listen to women, and a series …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… hospital discharges and, ultimately, some of the other problems in the NHS, whether it be ambulance response times, waiting lists and so on, community hospitals, I think, will be absolutely fundamental in helping the NHS achieve that. But …
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: The Future of the Crown Estate in Wales
… Minister is here. Of course, this isn't a health debate, but the driving down of the longest waiting times in Wales, consistently now over the last month after month after month after month is a real tribute …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Reducing NHS pressures
… implementation plan for health and care. The impact of workforce shortages on patient care cannot be underestimated, as waiting times reached record levels in Wales. Cancer lists and ambulance performance times are currently the worst on record, and … overall waiting list numbers passed 750,000 for the first time in October 2022. Yet with little to no reliable up-to-date workforce data, no national implementation plan for recruitment and retention, no consistent approach to the …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The NHS
… health boards to the point where they are able to buy healthcare capacity, in England, based on English waiting times. And only by doing that will you stop the two-tier system that's happening now between Welsh …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The NHS
… when they come to you with issues that are similar to the ones that I receive, with long waiting times at Glan Clwyd A&E, for example? I get many constituents getting in touch about that …
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Debate on petition P-06-1494, 'Welsh Government to protect funding in education from WG and Local Authority cuts'
… The Cabinet Secretary also points to additional hypothecated grant funding on top of the local government settlement. Growing waiting times for a diagnosis were also stressed by the petitioners. Responding to the Cabinet Secretary’s focus on tackling …