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Questions to the First Minister
… people from all the sectors, and people with lived experience, to find solutions in terms of reducing waiting times and, more importantly, securing sustainable services. The NHS Wales Executive has also undertaken a review of children's neurodevelopmental …
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Questions to the First Minister
… are taking action to reduce the longest waiting times. Demand for neurodivergence services continues to grow. Later this month, multiple agencies will come together for a national rapid service redesign event. This will lay the foundations to secure …
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Questions to the First Minister
… What is the Government doing to address the issue of waiting times for assessing children for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism and ADHD in the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board area? OQ61861
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 13
… enough knowledge around it. Lots of people don't know about it, and it's horrendously long, the waiting time. So, it could be a big part of the solution, but it's also part of the problem …
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Debate: Draft Budget 2022-23
… NHS is a generous one, but, like everything in this Government, and what's been mentioned a few times in this debate, the devil lies in the detail. The NHS recovery fund is unlikely to make a dent … the vast black hole. Health boards continue to massively overspend, and we have some of the worst waiting times in the UK. More than half of Welsh patients are waiting more than 26 weeks to start treatment. These …
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… been met and to understand the position in that regard. You have talked about the new figures for waiting times coming out tomorrow, and I understand that's of course the case. As it stands at the moment … years for treatment. And that figure is double—double—that of people waiting in the entirety of England, and England has a population 18 times the size of Wales. So, can I ask you—and this goes back …
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Short Debate: The future of local healthcare in rural Wales
… new equipment will produce faster, clearer images, helping to improve diagnostic testing for people in Powys, by reducing waiting times and providing quicker and more accurate results. We are also funding the digital medicines transformation portfolio, which will …
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Short Debate: The future of local healthcare in rural Wales
… north Denbighshire community hospital in Rhyl, which would serve as an antidote to some of those acute waiting times at Glan Clwyd’s accident and emergency department. It's been promised for over a decade now, and …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
… the pudding. We need the Welsh Government to use any additional consequentials to effectively tackle our NHS waiting times, which successive health Ministers have clearly lost control of. This will involve a holistic approach to our health service …
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Debate on petition P-06-1400, 'Fair and Adequate Resourcing of General Practice in Wales'
… choice to commit £1 billion over the course of this Senedd term to clear the backlog and reduce waiting times, which built up during the pandemic. By necessity, this means that a larger proportion of funding has gone …
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Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Annual Report: European Union Settlement Scheme'
… get their status. And whilst I accept that an influx of applications is going to push up waiting times, I would argue that there might well have been issues in obtaining data from the country of origin and …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
… Welsh Government has refused to do the same here, which means we now have over 100,000 people waiting for trauma and orthopaedic treatment—over 60 per cent higher than pre-COVID levels. Going back to funding, which … also replicate the successful roll-out of surgical hubs and diagnostic centres, which have been successful at bringing waiting times down in England. Thank you very much …
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
… health boards, including her own local health board, in order to be able to tackle both the longest waiting times but also those for perhaps more routine surgery. And I was able to visit the regional cataract centre …
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
… well understood. I don't have the detail in front of me, I'm afraid, of the CAMHS waiting times in particular at Cwm Taf, but I would, of course, be very happy to write to him specifically …
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Business Statement and Announcement
… Government is doing to resolve the issues in the Welsh ambulance services trust, which are leading to unacceptable waiting times, because my constituents deserve a heck of a lot better …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Management of NHS pressures
… already heard this evening about the variety of complex issues that face the health service. Ambulance waiting times remind us clearly of the huge pressure on the sector. In November alone, 4,600 red calls were made … single month. Fewer than half of the ambulances arrived within the target time of eight minutes. Too many people therefore are having to wait hours for an ambulance, instead being encouraged to travel to their local …
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Business Statement and Announcement
… patients are waiting considerably longer for their operations that the consultants are wanting to do. At a time when waiting lists are high and there are promises from your Government to get those waiting lists down, will you …
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Debate: The Children’s Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2023-24
… way too high. This is higher than both Scotland and Northern Ireland, but it’s more than three times higher than Denmark, Finland and Norway, who demonstrate that it’s perfectly achievable to get child poverty under … assessment, compared with over 80 per cent of adults. Improving child mental health services to bring down waiting times must be prioritised. There are threats to our young people's health and well-being that didn't exist …
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Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: Mental Health and Well-being
… This information is vital in order to ensure a good service in the right places at the right time, and I was very pleased to hear the Minister emphasise the importance of the need for accurate data … situation in terms of service provision is particularly fragile in respect of children and young people, who experience waiting times for treatment that are, on average, far longer than those for adults. Recent statistics show that just over …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
… enough provision and capacity, do you think, to meet current needs and demands, and to make sure that waiting times are not too long? And is enough being done to achieve equity of service across Wales …