18 January 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
… focus on prioritising. For example, I've made sure that we've got about £170 million additional for waiting times ; well, there are children on those waiting lists, so, obviously, some of that money would go towards them … you start going down that route, the point is that we could go on for a long, long time , and it's complicated enough as it is. So, there are, however, a number of budget areas within our …
7 May 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The role of local authorities in supporting hospital discharges: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care and the Minister for Children and Social Care
… all know that we have a system that mainly measures outputs from a secondary care space. It's waiting times , it's access targets and those things. And, obviously, a system responds, generally speaking, to the targets that …
7 May 2025 , Finance Committee
Post-legislative review of the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019: Evidence session 2
… looking at, so we will, if it's around welfare fund, work with the councils about their waiting times , about how they're allocating funds, et cetera, but there are no recommendations where we can directly say, 'This …
30 April 2025 , Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Supporting people with chronic conditions'
… GPs who told us they were concerned about their ability to provide adequate care in the short time they get to see a patient. Therefore, I’d very much welcome the Cabinet Secretary’s commitment to work with … Government health policy recognises the necessity of this shift, we believe that a combination of factors, including lengthy waiting times and a lack of time and resources, have meant that, in reality, preventive work is not often …
30 April 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
… Wales. The UK Government has instructed the DVSA to intensify its efforts to improve access and reduce waiting times for driving tests to seven weeks by the summer of next year …
11 July 2023 , Plenary
Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering the Government’s priorities and legislative programme
… over the course of this Senedd term to help it to recover from the pandemic and to reduce waiting times . Thanks to the hard work of staff all over Wales, those long waits are falling. We've worked … proud to have delivered the real living wage to our social care workforce as well. At the same time as we've expanded our childcare offer, making more families eligible for funded childcare, I am very proud that …
9 February 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
… the Welsh Government's targets remain unmet and waiting lists continue to rise. Even before the pandemic, cancer waiting times had not been met since 2008 and four times the number of people were waiting over a year … early diagnosis in improving survival. In opening today's debate, Russell George stated that the current cancer treatment times are not catching up, that Welsh cancer survival rates have been stalling for many years, and the system was …
12 November 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… for that response. Following a freedom of information request, I have been staggered, truth be told, by the waiting times experienced by children in north Wales. Sixty-two per cent of all the children referred for assessment have …
16 January 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
… difficulties that we've had with orthopaedics over the last, probably, seven or eight years in terms of waiting times . Of the, I think, about 22,000 additional procedures that will happen in the last two quarters …
7 January 2025 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS winter pressures
… per cent of people tested for flu were positive. This is three times as many as this time last year. We are now entering the peak flu period and numbers could rise further over the coming days and … assessing and discharging people with acute respiratory infections in critical care and emergency departments has contributed to longer waiting times for admission. This has resulted in congested wards and emergency departments, and in longer ambulance handover delays, limiting …
24 September 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… therefore, appropriate for us to look at where the opportunities are for us to work together. The longest waiting times in Wales have fallen by 66 per cent from their peak in March 2022, and the average wait …
2 October 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
… will be pleased to know as well that we're putting in place arrangements to collect data about waiting times for EOTAS and PRU placements nationally, and if the Member is aware of cases that she feels are …
14 December 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… shopping list here for you. Was it keeping in place the ineffective vaccine passports; recording the longest ambulance waiting times on record; the worst A&E waits in Britain; leaving a fifth of the population on an NHS …
10 May 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 3
… them a second time . A general question from me, possibly, then: if we look at the fact that waiting times are longer at present in Wales than they have ever been, what are the main factors when … comes to the gynaecological cancer waiting lists? Are we talking, fairly simply, about a lack of priority for women's cancers than those that strike men more, or is there a more structural problem within our health services …
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund
… not need the operation anymore. But it's very difficult to validate waiting lists on anything other than time waited , actually, once you've got them into those categories, I'm afraid …
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund
… move to item 8. This is a session in regard to our work on the impact of the waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment. We have an evidence session this afternoon and …
21 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… highlight where there is progress—and I do understand that, Minister—when you speak in a few moments' time , but I think that you should also seek to acknowledge that outcomes are still nowhere near where they should … our emergency department, where just 83 per cent of patients are being seen within a 12-hour waiting time target. That means that nearly 20 per cent of people are having to wait more than 12 hours …
15 January 2025 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
… January 2024, over 700,000 patient pathways were waiting to start treatment, with more than 23,000 people waiting over two years for treatment. These are not just numbers; it represents thousands of individuals enduring prolonged suffering due … for. We're for establishing centres of excellence, more surgical hubs and rapid diagnostic centres to reduce waiting times , expanding hospital bed capacity to ease overcrowding. Under this Labour Government we've lost 4,227 beds from our …
19 October 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health and Social Care Winter Protection Plan 2021-22
… pressure on the Welsh NHS, we have direction from the Welsh Government. We have record-breaking A&E waiting times , record-breaking numbers of people on waiting lists, and one in four people are waiting for more than …
16 January 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
… regional diagnostic and elective surgery proposition that will serve the south-east of Wales. These things take time to implement. In the meantime, they've had mobile MRI and CT scanners on site. So, that isn't about … equipment, it's about having a regional delivery of a service, and that's made it possible for waiting times to be reduced quite significantly in the diagnostic space. So, I think it's a mix of investment …