, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services on Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 4
… that Welsh Government has to commit the necessary financial resources, and obviously you would apply that to reducing waiting times for ophthalmology services …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 3
… that have been introduced. What benefits do you think have resulted from that in terms of reducing hospital waiting times and enhancing optometrist training? Do you think that they have been successful? And, related to that, how important …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 3
There are no waiting times in primary care …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 3
… patients from community optometrists to hospital eye services? And what needs to happen to streamline, to reduce the waiting times …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 3
Sure. So, despite that we've had the contract reforms, waiting times remain high. So, I suppose, what evidence exists to show a reduction in hospital eye care referrals due to the reforms …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 2
… applauded. I think that there are almost certainly built-in inefficiencies that will lead to longer waiting times, and the more that those can be helped, the better …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 2
… these conflicts have impacted on patient care and the running of services, and have contributed to the long waiting times that we have in Wales …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 2
… represent Wrexham, which is right on the border with England, and it's a—. We've had waiting time initiatives over the border in Shropshire, and it's a real issue about lack of capacity to exchange records …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 2
… means that they require fairly prompt surgery? In some parts of England, it’s reported actually that the waiting time is very low. I think my concern would be that, sadly, sometimes people are being regarded …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 1
… extends waiting lists, it extends waiting times for patients …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… What is the Welsh Government doing to reduce waiting times for patients requiring orthopaedic surgery in south-east Wales? OQ62473
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The Welsh Government has supported the health board to make improvements in waiting times with additional finance, direct intervention and support from the NHS executive. Improvements across planned care and children and adolescent mental health services in particular …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… What is the Welsh Government doing to improve waiting times in the Hywel Dda University Health Board area? OQ62456
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… and blood cancers. The earlier diagnosis of these rare cancers will be critical to meeting the 62-day waiting time target. Last Friday, the Rare Cancers Bill, a private Member’s Bill, progressed through its Second Reading …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
… that they're unable, of course, to go back to support patients in the community, resulting in longer waiting times for them to arrive. So, what progress have you made in this area, Minister, because Wales continues … have, as we know, the slowest ambulance response times on record and the worst A&E waits, and the longest NHS treatment lists in Britain? I have given you a number of suggestions, Minister, for developing different areas …
, Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2024-25
… other public service. On the issue of the £50 million that was provided to the health service for waiting times—Heledd Fychan raised this, as well as Sam Rowlands—I think we can see the impact of that …
, Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2024-25
… the decision Members are asked to make today: £25 million for superannuation contributions; £50 million to reduce waiting times; £27 million to support the 50-day challenge; £31 million in capital investment in digital and diagnostic equipment …
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
… the budget narratives for last year and this year, I think prevention is not mentioned nearly as many times, for example, as two years ago. So, we are not seeing that long-term thinking, a future generations-informed … addressing the challenges right now—you know, putting injections into the NHS to make sure we lower the waiting times. But when there isn't central guidance to invest in prevention and because there is such little detail …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
… First Minister yesterday, and the health Secretary today, quite scornfully respond to Plaid Cymru's suggestions to improve waiting times by saying that they're already doing them all. Well, then, why are independent experts who helped … Labour likes to pride itself on being the party of the NHS, but the corrosive influence of long waiting lists in widening and exacerbating social inequalities, and the buoying of the private sector and all the risks that …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Reducing NHS pressures
… going to develop it. We know that another crucial facet of what we must address is ambulance waiting times in Wales. Nobody should die from an excessive wait for an ambulance. Now we know that new ambulance training … rapid response. And the sight of queues of ambulances sat idle in hospital forecourts, as hospital handover waits occur, must be the exception and not the norm. Because the pressures and challenges are real for the NHS, and …