, Health and Social Care Committee
Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 1: NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee
Our contracts are set up in such a way that they meet the Welsh waiting times targets. However, we do have that discussion regularly with English providers where, for them operationally on the ground, it is incredibly difficult … separate waiting lists, so they don't, in effect. And they do actually manage just to that English waiting time, which we know is lower. So, there is potential for differential there between somebody going to Glan Clwyd …
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Questions to the First Minister
… delivery Minister, and tell us what you're delivering, because this Government isn't delivering a reduction in waiting times. I ask you now for the third time: given the points that you have put forward in your … first 100 days, of this £28 million, of this 50-day challenge, how can we have confidence that waiting times will improve and pressures will abate on our hospitals and primary care? As I said to you …
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
… those seven chief executives that she said now need to step up the plate and deliver on waiting times. The Welsh Government set a blueprint of how they were going to reduce waiting times within the NHS, but … have missed every target to get rid of those waiting times that have proved so stubbornly high, and, in fact, over the last couple of months, have started to go back up. So, what does the First Minister …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
… revenue and capital for health and social care, which will support the NHS to continue to reduce long waiting times. The extra budget from the UK Government has been really welcome. The Welsh Government is taking action … issue. Two-year waits have fallen by two thirds since their peak in the COVID pandemic. The average wait time for referral to treatment has dropped from 29 weeks to 23 weeks. There is still some way …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
… earlier about the additional money the overall department has received and the priorities you've set out on waiting times and access. I'm particularly interested in how you're looking to accelerate progress in reducing paediatric waiting … earlier about inputs, outputs and outcomes. What outcomes do you expect, not just in terms of reducing the waiting times, but what outcomes do you expect in terms of helping to address long-term development delays for children …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… don't have specific waiting times for community paediatrics. We don't have specific targets for those. I think the key issue has been the quite significant increase in demand over the last two or three years … kilter with that level of demand, frankly. I think the resources that we have made available to reduce waiting times, where there's a community dimension, have so far been focused on reducing mental health waiting times …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
… the local level before submitting its advice and recommendations to me. Llywydd, in my statement in November about waiting times, I highlighted the use of Telederm alternative out-patient review pathways and the advice and guidance work … Consultant Connect as examples of transformation and innovation to help improve planned care and cut waiting times. In the year ahead, I expect to see these ways of working become routine, and other changes such as eye care …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Ophthalmology services
… have received excellent ophthalmology treatment, and I have received no complaints regarding their clinical treatment, but the astronomical waiting times are having devastating consequences, and need to be addressed as a matter of urgency. Some of the personal … have been deeply distressing, and, in north Wales, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has by far the worst waiting times in Wales for ophthalmology services, with close to 43,000 people assessed as health risk factor R1 waiting …
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Questions to the First Minister
… would be helpful if the health Secretary made that same statement when he makes his statement about waiting times. Last year, the Welsh Government provided £120 million of additional funding to the seven health boards across Wales … help tackle the waiting time backlog. Cardiff and the Vale Health Board in south Wales received £20 million. Powys health board received £115,000 only. That is less than 0.1 per cent of that total allocation. When …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
… this afternoon, although the subject is less than pleasurable, namely the Welsh Government's abject failure to address waiting times in the Welsh NHS. When I retired as an orthopaedic consultant, I had not had much … pain. So, it saddens me to see just how bad things have become. We have the worst waiting times in the UK; tens of thousands of people are forced to wait years for treatment. Even if we were …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Ophthalmology services
… the human cost—indeed, the human tragedy—and look at this in a purely economic light, tackling ophthalmology waiting times and preventing irreversible sight loss will help to reduce the strain on public finances. Accepting the recommendations … that duty. The Welsh Government would have us believe that they are finally getting to grips with ophthalmology waiting times and simply ignore the fact that they have been running things for the last 25 years. When …
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Topical Questions
… Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd said, one of the qualifying criteria for de-escalation is indeed the reduction of waiting times, and, as you know and as I know and as most people know, the waiting times … never going to come out of special measures. And one of the solutions to the chronic waiting times at Glan Clwyd A&E department is the building of north Denbighshire community hospital in Rhyl, which is long seen …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting lists
… public told us clearly how much they value the NHS, but they were clear they wanted to see waiting times come down. We heard first-hand from them about a friend, about a family member, or about their … too much variation across Wales in terms of productivity and performance. As part of our work to reduce waiting times, we are targeting that variation specifically, whether that's in theatre productivity, day-case activity, or procedure times …
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… contrast with other UK nation, implies that the Government believes that the policy can actually ease A&E waiting times. But, since being introduced in 2011, this simply hasn’t materialised. In August 2011, 8.8 per cent … per cent. In April 2013, which is the earliest point for available data on the 12-hour waiting times, 2.7 per cent were waiting longer than 12 hours for emergency care. In August 2023, that figure was …
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Questions to the First Minister
… therapy service. Because of this, it therefore has decided to remove audiology from the combined diagnostic and therapy waiting times return and instead introduce a new patient-level data collection from April this year. This change was undoubtedly … people waiting for audiology care in Wales, and around 17,000 of them exceeding the proposed target waiting times. Yet diagnostic and therapy waiting times were reported only as being about 4,400, just 25 per cent, showing …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
… see improvements in patient flow through our hospitals in Wales. Shockingly, national performance against the 62-day cancer waiting times target remains significantly below where it should be, and, prior to the pandemic, Wales already had poor waiting … times for routine treatments. It's worrying to know that cancer waiting times have not been met since 2008. Furthermore, waiting times for key cancer diagnosis targets are still substantially large, despite progress in recent months, and the …
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Unheard: Women's journey through gynaecological cancer'
… She outlines actions to support improvements in cancer care in general, including initiatives like rapid diagnostic centres and waiting-time recovery programmes, but there is an absence of targeted actions addressing the specific challenges faced by women with … heard, it is clear that there were long-standing issues in gynaecological cancer services that predated COVID-19. Waiting times for treatment are long, and compliance with single cancer pathway targets is one of the lowest for all …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Health emergency
… them hitting their own targets. Further frustrating is when the Welsh Government publish misleading information about Powys patients' waiting times. The Welsh Government, only in May, declared that Powys Teaching Health Board have no patients waiting more than … the Labour Government’s amendment today. The Government claim that they are addressing the issue of improving waiting times. If the Government were serious about cutting waiting times in Wales, they would be making use of the available …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session 5
Nobody else can help particularly with that? No. Okay. Claire, you mentioned that you don’t think that waiting times are particularly a problem, and we know that data on waiting times for care and support services are … Welsh Government, but not published. Could you give us any indication at all of what the average waiting times for carer assessments and support plans are at the current time …
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Questions to the First Minister
… and he hasn't offered a road out for many of these people who are stuck on the waiting times, other than to talk about the waiting times in England, which has a population, as I've said … million people. To have the equivalent waiting times here in Wales, you would need to have 13 million people plus on the waiting lists in England. Now, First Minister, you need to do better than that. You have …