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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Update on Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… across Wales. So, I won't scrutinise the good things that have happened, but I will spend some time scrutinising some of the weaknesses that continue in the region. And it is no small matter that I note … over 156 weeks for treatment, zero 4-hour ambulance handovers and improved 4 and 12-hour emergency department waiting time performance.' That's what you promised. But during the three months following that statement, treatment waits of over …
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Report of the Ministerial Advisory Group on NHS Wales Performance and Productivity
… impact possible, which is what we all wish to see. I, as she does, welcome the reductions in waiting times over the last three months. We very much hope and expect that that will continue. That's certainly … was to reduce those two-year waits down to around 8,000 patients. So, we will hopefully have some good news to be able to share in a few weeks' time. I think she is right to point …
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Questions to the First Minister
… waiting list. It is a national scandal. And what's worse is the fact that our waiting times for tests and treatment are still the worst in Britain. Thousands more people across Wales are at risk of the …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… deliver on the ambitious plans that we have to continue the progressive reduction that we’ve seen in waiting times for patients right across Wales. I am confident that the plans that we have for the year ahead …
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Short Debate: Thinking differently: The Women's Institute campaign to support autistic and ADHD women and girls
… that, over the course of the last six months, we have taken targeted action to tackle those long waiting times for children's assessments. As you know, our First Minister did a listening exercise over the summer. This … health boards across Wales to eliminate the longest waits. While progress has been mixed—I'll be honest—some health boards successfully transformed their assessment pathways and considerably reduced times. In other parts of Wales, there needs …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
… waiting lists, but with one in five of the Welsh population now on waiting lists—a record high—he has failed at the first time of asking. In so doing, rather than turning the page on over … seen the very worst excesses of this trait throughout this election campaign. The fact that reducing NHS waiting times is one of Labour's six general election pledges for Wales is a damning indictment of a party whose …
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Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report, 'Implementation of education reforms: Interim report'
… right thing to do. There are children sitting on waiting lists, as I've said, for extraordinarily long times, waiting to be identified and assessed, and there are some falling under the radar, whilst others on the cusp … having more obvious difficulties are suffering as they wait and falling behind their peers. I have to agree with the Members for Caerphilly and North Wales on that. These delays are unacceptable, and we need to take action …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
… let down by the failings of this service. Now, some of these children spend a lot of their time waiting on lengthy lists for an assessment. Over 62 per cent of those waiting have waited over a year … tired, I believe, of waiting for a change of Government and a change of direction on the NHS, and I hope we'll have an opportunity to do that in 18 months' time …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… are determined to reduce long waiting times across Wales. The number of people waiting for two years has fallen every month since we published our planned care recovery plan. In March 2024, the number waiting two years was …
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… the most traumatic and difficult times during the COVID pandemic. We are seeing a significant improvement in waiting times; they're not as fast we'd like, but our waiting lists are coming down, while they're going …
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Questions to the First Minister
… public's priorities. No-one here can deny—and no-one could even think about denying—that NHS waiting times have continued to grow. Wales has three quarters of a million people on waiting lists for treatment, the … worst A&E waits in Britain, the slowest ambulance response times on record, and our schools are at the bottom of UK Programme for International Student Assessment rankings. So, First Minister, I'd like to know when …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health
… children need. However, despite the promises and the times we've heard it, time and time again, the number of children waiting four weeks or more for their first appointment with child and adolescent mental health services and … health services that they require. Our healthcare system should be better equipped to handle mental health issues, reducing waiting times and ensuring that no-one is left without help and support when they need it the most. According …
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New Petitions
… the Cabinet Secretary for Health made an announcement that £120 million will be provided to help cut waiting times. 'In considering further action in regard to this petition, you may like to consider taking up this matter with … Cabinet Secretary, asking how many of the 200,000 appointments mentioned to reduce the overall size of the waiting list, will be patients of Powys Teaching Health Board, and how this funding will benefit Powys patients who are …
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
… lot of enthusiasm, honestly, in the system, to give that real boost, to bring down the longest waiting times. It will benefit the children and young people who have been waiting the longest, and the money then …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… the capacity for specialist eye care provision. The total number of pathways assessed as health risk factor R1—waiting for an out-patient appointment—has increased from 155,500 in April 2024 to 161,350 in April … Cabinet Secretary, that the additional funding awarded through the contract agreement must now be prioritised to reduce these waiting times …
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—'Waiting well? The impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales'
… been raised in this important report. Some people will still, I'm afraid, have to wait for too long for some time. But … look forward to continuing to report on the work that's being done across our system to reduce waiting times and make things easier for people. Thank you very much to the committee once again for all …
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2025-26
… the brink, with 24,000 people waiting more than two years for treatment, and less than a 50 per cent chance of seeing an ambulance within the eight-minute target time in an emergency. There's so much … properly funded and resourced health service if you're working efficiently cross sector and cross border to tackle waiting times and enable people to flourish in good health. We know that education is the best way for people …
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Winter pressures in healthcare
… increased anxiety from them at this particular time of the year. Of course, we have this statement today in the context of one in five people being on an NHS waiting list and still having those over … that regard. But, ultimately, what is your plan to end the strikes? Minister, you also talked about waiting times recovery. The recovery target to reduce out-patient waits to below 52 weeks by December 2022 was not achieved …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… safeguard this hospital. Now, look at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Glan Clwyd and Wrexham Maelor. When you look at their waiting times for A&E, these are the figures stated, but I can tell you that sometimes … patients through the emergency department is being hampered by other delays in the hospitals. I know people waiting two days on a chair sometimes, on corridor care. The pressure could be reduced through transferring some patients to wards …
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on the Six Goals for Emergency Care Programme
… course, that we regularly see in the news. So, the Welsh NHS recorded its worst ever A&E waiting times, as well as its slowest ambulance response times and longest treatment list as well. So, even looking … Grange in Gwent barely saw half of A&E patients in that time. I'd also point out the over 10,000 patients across Wales waiting for over 12 hours for emergency treatment in March alone …