, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… going to speed the planning system up. The two can't be happening at the same time, First Minister. So, can you say to me today, are you going to be the First Minister who misses this manifesto … target of delivering 20,000 units of social housing, just like you missed your NHS targets to reduce waiting times here in Wales? Or is this manifesto commitment going to be hit, which, obviously, the auditor general …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health services
… this is not the way that reports like this should be just left lingering, and families in agonising waits. However, given that the Betsi Cadwaladr health board now is currently at the second stage of an important report … the issue of mental health services, the latest figures show that this board has the second worst waiting times in Wales, with just 56.3 per cent waiting less than 28 days for an assessment in September 2021. Constructively …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with Wales Cancer Alliance
… heard this week, actually, is: 'The best way to reduce mental health is to reduce the waiting time in general'—if people are not waiting, they're not getting anxious. And what I would say in regards …
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care about what steps the Government will be taking to improve ambulance waiting times? An 86-year-old constituent of mine had a nasty fall during a recent shopping trip at Newport … rushed to her aid and called for an ambulance, only be told that there was an eight-hour wait. My constituent's son was left with the shocking prospect of leaving his frightened mother on a cold, wet …
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 8
… allow the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care to make inroads into hospital waiting lists and waiting times, and for him to be able to pursue other priorities. So, I just wonder what specific outcomes is the …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
… LINAC machines. The additional capacity created by the radiotherapy satellite unit will benefit patients by helping to reduce waiting times for patients who are awaiting radiotherapy treatment, also reducing travelling time for some patients living in Gwent, who …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Access to Primary and Community Care Services
… that in my statement. But also Hywel Dda have launched an integrated community stroke service, which reduces hospital waiting times. So, there is a range of ways, right across Wales, in each of the health boards, in which …
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
… this Government having a Minister for Delivery, and yet here you are. Minister, there are record-breaking waiting times in Wales, one in five of our children are leaving school functionally illiterate, and we have the highest economic …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
… can get the system to do that, then the profile starts to look different, in terms of waiting times, hopefully reasonably soon. So, there are two ways of doing …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
The funding you provided to reduce waiting times …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
… the figures that are available, we already publish—and you will see next week—on a monthly basis waiting times overall. We've now provided that information on, I think, a more useful basis, where it breaks …
, Plenary
Voting Time
The next series of votes is on item 7, the Plaid Cymru debate on NHS waiting times. The first vote is on the motion without amendment, tabled in the name of Heledd Fychan. Open the vote. Close the …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
Item 7, the Plaid Cymru debate on NHS waiting times, is next. I call on Mabon ap Gwynfor to move the motion …
, Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2024-25
… line with the levels set in 2023-24. Now to talk about some of the issues around waiting times. The scale of the challenge remains daunting, and targets to reduce out-patient waits to below 52 weeks and …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
… What sort of metrics will you be using to track that progress, and in terms of reducing the waiting times and improving the service and expanding the access …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
… touched on the £3 million—up to £3 million—for the health boards to bring down those longest waiting times, and that was very much in line with the exercise that the First Minister did over the summer …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
… one of the points that I raised with the new clinical lead. Clearly, to understand the impact of waiting times on children or the configuration of services on children, we need to have, I would say, a better …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
… how you measure wider outcomes in developmental delays and impacts on children, and how you expect changes in waiting times to make a difference to those wider—. And, again, how you measure them and how you understand them …
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Delivering for Wales
… asking for more, who are asking for change—people who want to see standards rising in our schools, waiting times reducing in our NHS, and a more enterprising economy that makes the best use of the resources and …
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Delivering for Wales
… into faster NHS treatment. Twenty-one million pounds of that was for NHS diagnostic equipment to help cut waiting times. Years of austerity meant no money to pay staff overtime, no extra operations, no choice. But now staff …