, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session: panel 8
… running, and we really wish it was. It would be fantastic for the service. When you look at waiting times, when you look at the numbers of patients going through, particularly for WGOS 4, which stops patients going …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session: panel 8
… care, and like I said, that's something that we'll continue to monitor. But with regard to waiting times and referrals, the facilities have to be there in secondary care as well. It has …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
… That is obviously not the totality of the funding that the health service draws on to grapple with waiting times. So, if you look at the pattern, for example, over the last two years, you'll have seen …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Westminster, look to the Welsh Government—this is our blueprint', highlighting the fact that there are record waiting times here in Wales, with one in four people on a waiting list. There's a record number of people …
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
… was on the Petitions Committee before, before I was transferred. And I’m conscious that, at the time when it came in, the threshold for debate was 5,000, and I’m conscious that there’s still … wait to see what review is going to happen in the spring in terms of tertiary care and waiting times. But we've had a bit of a discussion about it recently, because of Endometriosis Awareness Month, and …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. Last week, we had the waiting time figures here in Wales, which regrettably showed another increase in terms of people waiting on NHS waiting lists. Just shy of 800,000 procedures are now …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Mental Health support in Higher Education—evidence session 4
… CBT and trauma-focused therapy for students, and getting that in a timely fashion. At the minute, the waiting times are just too long for students to be able to access that whilst they're at university. And …
, 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
… difficult, because it means front-loading staff, I think, to have those conversations and it's just time and resource for staff in health boards. We did write, with Versus Arthritis, to the health boards in Wales suggesting … out there where people are being seen earlier and having that time with a health professional before their waiting time has finished. Again, getting that across Wales consistently is the challenge …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on Special Measures at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… Audit Wales in relation to financial accounting last year. We have yet to see the sustained improvement in waiting times that we all want to see, but there has been, since January, a 35 per cent reduction … mostly since special measures. And the number of very long waits for treatment has fallen by 27 per cent. That is not a bad record during a time of turmoil faced by the organisation, but I recognise and …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
… people have to wait longer for that, and the longer waits for that is what is impacting on waiting times in hospitals and delayed transfers in hospitals. So, we're absolutely working on that as a joint policy …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… that he has. [Laughter.] I'd just like to ask the First Minister, if I may, on NHS waiting times. If we were standing here this time last year, the two-year-wait figure for people in the … waiting for medical procedures, First Minister. So, can you give that hope as we go into the summer recess that these numbers will start to come down and we won't be standing here this time next year …
, Plenary
Debate: Draft Budget 2022-23
… one in five people in Wales are on waiting lists, many of which are waiting for long and uncertain periods of time, in pain, discomfort, distress and also in many cases facing financial hardship in that time … will be discussing with the Minister later this week as part of our inquiry into the impact of waiting time backlogs. We are pleased to see the investment in the recovery of NHS services; however, we would welcome …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government performance during the Sixth Senedd
… Welsh Labour Government, but the grit and determination with which we have governed in the most testing of times. It's perfectly clear that when we set our priorities at the start of this Senedd term, none … health and care system and flow is paying off, and we continue to drive this improvement to cut waiting times even further this year. Because of the new Government and this investment in the NHS, and because Jane …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
This Government is committed to reducing waiting times to access health services across Wales. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board will receive £7.3 million in additional funding this year to tackle its longest waits for planned care and diagnostics …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session - panel 6
… community demand and also the demand that will still necessarily remain within secondary care in terms of the waiting times …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session - panel 5
… planning? Who's in charge of that, and how is data used to better allocate resources and reduce waiting times …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… and with recruiting and retaining GPs, and that's leading to increased workloads for existing GPs and longer waiting times for patients. A recent report highlighted that some practices are operating with one single GP and others are …
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cancer services in Wales: evidence session with Wales Cancer Alliance
… one, if that's okay. I think that the performance against that 62-day target and the cancer waiting times is really the sharp end of some of the broader issues that we see in the cancer system … their mental and emotional health as well. In 2024, we saw, for example, 9,000 people across Wales wait too long to start treatment on that 62-day pathway, which is just not good enough, quite frankly …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… the First Minister failing on her No. 1 priority. Now, with a promise to eradicate 12-month waiting times seemingly consigned to Labour's growing missed targets filing cabinet, will the First Minister confirm whether or not she …
, Plenary
Topical Questions
… and carers are very concerned that if a child goes ill at the moment, it can take some time for certain symptoms to arise. Of course, we're in that season, aren't we, where children … half hours. At the moment, there's a hospital in north Wales whereby the board says 10 hours' waiting time. But, they were so worried they waited, to be told, 'You could have gone to see your …