, Plenary
Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2025-26
… terms of specific allocations in the supplementary budget, we note the £100 million funding provided to reduce waiting times. We note the assurances provided by the Cabinet Secretary that the oversight arrangements within Government around this additional funding …
, Plenary
Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2025-26
… the waiting list by 200,000 people, to eliminate all two-year waits, and to restore the diagnostic wait times to under eight weeks by March 2026. I recognise the enormous efforts being made by the Cabinet Secretary …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Hospital services and hospital closures
… patient care. In Powys, we see the human cost of fiscal mismanagement. Patients are actively being told to wait longer for treatment because the health board cannot afford to send them to England, where they could be treated … Now, all of this is happening at a time when cancer targets are declining, all at a time when waiting lists are ballooning and all at a time when more than 11,000 people are left waiting over …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
… weeks you referred to had yet to be achieved. Eight months ago. Responding, the DVSA noted that August waiting times last year in the region ranged from 10.5 weeks in Wrexham to 18.5 in Rhyl. Last week … DVSA looked forward to meeting them virtually tonight, and stated, for example, they were told that the February waiting list was 7.6 weeks for Rhyl, 15.4 for Bangor, and overall 8.1 for Wales, when the reality appears very …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… see it happen, and it's heartbreaking to see it diagnosed so late, so that by the time we get the diagnosis, we know that there is very little that can be done to actually halt the disease … treatment. Our focus, really, then, is on implementing the nationally agreed pathway for pancreatic cancer under the cancer waiting times target. We have also focused on the quality of care, and funded a national clinical audit to help …
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… that is a matter for the health committee. I really do. And look, it's not as if waiting times and how the health budget is spent is going to be a matter that goes unscrutinised. We spend …
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
… this supplementary budget. What processes and scrutiny have you undertaken to determine this latest funding allocation to reduce waiting times …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Will the First Minister make a statement on waiting times for ambulances in South Wales Central? OQ62923
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Altaf. Long waiting times have been falling over the past few months and more people are surviving heart disease. The women's health plan will be a real catalyst for change in Wales …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Access to Primary and Community Care Services
… These new staff are making a real difference. In Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, urgent diabetic foot waiting times have reduced from four weeks to 48 hours using podiatrist services. In one month alone, Swansea bay … life support, preventing 110 hospital admissions. And Cardiff and Vale's orthopaedic prehabilitation programme, which supports people waiting for hip and knee surgery through exercise and peer support, has reported significant post-surgery outcomes and a social return …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with allied health professionals
… contains a lot of relatively detailed information, anonymised, but it gives you an idea of the range of waiting times, the number of patients waiting, as far as we know. As I said earlier, it all relates …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 3
… improved in terms of the support there is available, but also in terms of speeding up that wait time. I mentioned lots of people mentioning being told that they needed to wait 26 weeks before they could get …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Future approach to optometry services
… hospitals; to reduce demand on hospitals and GPs; and to reform general ophthalmic service contracts. As Members know, waiting times are significant. Patient numbers waiting for their first hospital eye health appointment, and subsequent follow-up, continue …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… was about accelerating progress and co-ordinating system-wide access. That is about improving on performance against cancer waiting time targets. What we are looking to ensure is that investigation and treatment can start more rapidly, certainly within …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… This includes improving outcomes and experiences of people diagnosed with cancer, preventing and detecting cancer earlier, and addressing waiting times …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Now, we're making good progress on cutting NHS waiting times and delivery of social homes, and we're connecting our communities through better rail, roads and creating a more reliable, joined-up bus network. And …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum: Mental Health Bill
… able to get better, just like anybody else. In terms of what you were saying about the waiting times for neurodivergence and diagnosis, as you know, this is something—the assessment—that I'm absolutely committed … are really now making strides in bringing down those waiting lists for children and young people. My goal is to ensure that 99 per cent of people have their assessments when they're a child. I still have …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days
… looking for this change now, this catalyst for change. Despite your promises to reinvent Welsh Labour, our waiting times have worsened. Wales is now facing a healthcare crisis like no other, with over 800,000 people waiting for … days to stop the escalating temporary accommodation spend. We've now got 140,000 people on social housing waiting lists, and over 11,000 in temporary accommodation. Some of them are children and some of them will …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… more at integration of primary care optometry services. I just wondered what measurable improvements in patient outcomes and waiting times have been observed since the implementation of the Welsh general ophthalmic services. What evidence is there that supports …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… see obstacles that might be in their way. It would be interesting to look at the orthopaedic waiting times and see if there are any links between those people whose eyesight was failing who now find themselves with …