, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… have received representations that co-responders are not being fully utilised in emergency situations. The issue of ambulance waiting times, of course, was raised earlier in First Minister's questions. Now, I recently met with off-duty firefighters … supporting the ambulance service across Wales. I understand that, in some cases, co-responders can provide quicker response times than standard ambulance vehicles in some emergency situations. However, it was made very clear to me that co-responders …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
… beyond. In terms of some of the centres, though, in Wales, two of the centres with the shortest waiting times for tests in March were actually in Wales, and they were in north Wales. They were in Bala …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
And it's not just the waiting time targets for planned procedures; the emergency departments in north Wales are failing too. Their performance has deteriorated and they are now the worst in Wales and amongst the worst … the whole of the United Kingdom. One in three patients are waiting in the emergency departments for four hours or more—left languishing—and 17 per cent of patients, by the current figures, are in the emergency departments …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with cancer organisations
… participation is increasing. This is a really good thing. Again, from about that period, last year of April/May time, I think the detection rates are staying roughly the same, which is, again, a good thing. I think the … even more efficient moving down the line, because we're seeing screening endoscopy demand is also increasing and waiting times are also increasing in certain areas. There's a disparity across health boards, with some having endoscopy waits …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Update on Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Dirprwy Lywydd, I understand the frustration that people feel when they are faced with long waiting times for appointments, care and treatment. It's not good enough. One of the reasons the health board was put into special … long waits and is some way currently behind other health boards in reducing them, even with the extra funding we've provided. There is still a long way to go to ensure people have the timely access …
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Topical Scrutiny
… want the health board to balance its books, as you do, either you need to accept that the waiting times will be different or fund the gap, surely …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
… waiting times generally, we know that the NHS does use private sector involvement, sometimes, to get waiting lists down. I'm just interested in the draft budget what the breakdown and proportion of the spend is going …
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Allied health professionals
… many eligible patients face significant barriers to participation, including limited service provision in certain health board areas, long waiting times, and challenges related to transport, digital access and lack of local facilities. So, there are a lot … improve data collection, strengthen the workforce, and ensure equitable access to high-quality care. We also know that waiting lists vary dramatically, with some services having waits of a few weeks, while some parts of Wales have waits …
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Economy and Skills
… pleased that the UK Government is doing that queue-cleansing activity, which should see some significant reductions in waiting times for some, because there are projects that are just speculatively taking places on that list, which aren …
, Plenary
Finance Committee Debate: Welsh Government's spending priorities for the 2026-27 budget
… raised at the focus groups that, despite the health sector receiving the biggest proportion of the budget, long waiting times and bedblocking remain problematic. It was hoped that an investment in services would result in a more efficient …
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
… the next Welsh Government elections next year. I think there are five of them, including introducing a waiting time guarantee. I was wondering if we could write to the relevant Cabinet Secretary and ask for their opinions …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
… chest pain. After speaking to 999, I was advised to take four aspirin whilst waiting for the paramedics. After a period of time, my wife phoned, again, 999, and the paramedics arrived 40 minutes later. I was taken … achieve the high standards we strive to meet. In A&E it is well documented that patient waiting times are extraordinary. Only 65 per cent of patients are seen within the target of four hours—the lowest …
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Topical Scrutiny
… they see patients in England, if they allow patients to be seen in England, based on the English waiting time targets, that will cost £16 million. So, the question is: will the Welsh Government fill that gap …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services on Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 4
… transport. We also know that, in some areas, hospitals are now delivering treatments on weekends to reduce the waiting times. However, in some parts of Wales, no public transport is running on the weekends, so how are patients … them, and again, there is no offer for support for these patients. One gentleman I know has been waiting over 20 weeks for his injections and was offered treatment at another health board, where he had to travel …
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cancer services in Wales: evidence session with Public Health Wales
… population health of their communities. I think the challenge is, when it's the busyness about waiting lists, waiting times, the focus is very much around the here and now, and it's quite difficult to elbow …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session - panel 6
… Cardiff and Vale health board is seeing 65 per cent of high-risk patients within the clinically recommended time frame. Fair play, that's the highest of all health boards, but your target is actually 95 per cent … improving care for those at greatest risk? Is it feasible to achieve both these clinical prioritisation targets and waiting-time recovery targets simultaneously? Catherine, do you want to start …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Planned Care Recovery Plan
… that existed prior to the pandemic. Yes, they are worse, and the figures are so much worse—the waiting times are longer and the waiting lists are longer—but these are the same problems. As the Royal College …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government
… were able to pass despite Plaid, is making a real difference today in Wales. It's cutting waiting times, it's helping to raise standards in classrooms, it's creating more jobs, it's helping to build more …
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cancer Services in Wales: evidence session with the Welsh Government
… from the time that they are told that they may have cancer, which is clearly a really worrying time for anybody being told that. We ask our system to track all of those patients coming in, whether they … keep for secondary care because they may have cancer. I would say that we mustn’t normalise long waiting times for patients, from being told you might have cancer until you’re told, as Nick has said, that …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 3
… obs and gynae college yesterday, before speaking to you, and one of the reasons they said for making waiting times worse is that the surgery waiting lists—there's insufficient capacity to have that theatre space for them …