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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
… contribution, if I may continue, Deputy Presiding Officer, I'd like to focus on emergency waiting times initially and how, quite frankly, we see this area continuing to fail. The statistics are shocking. As already outlined today … when looking at those in accident and emergency units. Within four hours, we see some of the worst waiting times in accident and emergency units—within four hours—in Wales than anywhere else across Britain. They are deeply …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… One of the challenges that GPs tell me that they have is that, because of the extremely long waiting times for hospital treatment, they are now having to manage more people, and that's putting more pressure … community. Can I ask you for an update, particularly in respect of north Wales? We know that the waiting-time figures are dodgy up there, but, given the extra pressures in north Wales because of those very long …
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Improving Leadership and Performance at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… order to look and support primarily, particularly with patient flow, improving ambulance transfer times, as I mentioned, reducing waiting times for treatment and diagnostics, and improving waiting times for cancer diagnosis and treatment. That will be important …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Neurodivergence Improvement Programme
… risen very sharply in recent years as the general awareness of neurodivergent conditions has increased, leading to lengthening waiting times for assessment. We have undertaken a demand and capacity review of existing services and, in response, I have … additional £12 million of investment over three years to reduce the immense pressures in the system, to improve waiting times for assessment and to address gaps in current provision in both children and adult services. To fully understand …
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Improving Leadership and Performance at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… the end of March, and now we see that you'll also be providing £100 million to improve waiting times, so how much of that is actually going on Betsi Cadwaladr? As we've seen in the latest … crumbling infrastructure to treat as many patients as they can. And this is reflected in the A&E waiting times for the board itself. You've mentioned Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, and we can see the problems it faces …
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… they need to have quick access to specialist CAMHS. Clearly, the pandemic has had an impact on CAMHS waiting times, and we are aware of that and working really closely with health boards to improve waiting times … service improvement funding going out to the health boards. All of them have been told that improving CAMHS waiting times is a priority and they'll all be expected to set out their proposals for driving down those …
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Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society
… waiting list that was more appropriate for the geographic needs and the transport infrastructure for that population base. Waiting times have just increased massively. As I mentioned before, we're currently, across Wales, under-commissioning according to the … number of 12-year-olds on the national census in 2021. And waiting times were, say, two years in primary care, even longer in secondary care prior to COVID, and they've just gone up exponentially …
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Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 2
… distances, this becomes very attractive. Now, the other argument that people often make is that this distorts the waiting time, and that you're concentrating on doing the second eye before doing the first eye of many patients … computer programme that you can now feed in how many surgeries you're doing, what is your waiting time, and you'll be able to predict when you reach the crossover point and the numbers start coming down …
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Business Statement and Announcement
Thank you for that question. Of course, bringing down waiting times is an absolute priority for this Welsh Government, and indeed for the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care. Indeed, it is a priority of the new … Wales and all those who advise us, and indeed all of those who are delivering that reduction in waiting times. Again, thank you for raising this. It is important that we see the progress that is being made …
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Inquiry into gynaecological cancers: follow up with Welsh Government
… might not get them all in. I'd just like to go back to a couple on waiting times—they're quite key for us at the moment—if you don't mind. You accepted our recommendation … publish regular disaggregated data on gynaecological cancers, yet current reporting only includes general waiting times. Given that those delays vary by cancer type, will you progress that recommendation and commit to publishing waiting time data broken down …
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Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years: Improving mental health in Wales
… would like to address, but also areas that mental health strategies can better address. On the logistical challenges, waiting times for children's mental health support are disgraceful. A freedom of information request that we submitted revealed that … strategy currently fails to do. Child mental health services need the most attention, not just with the disgraceful waiting times that I have laid out, but also the Welsh Government's strategy. There has been a failure …
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Delivering on our priorities: Reducing waiting times and strengthening primary care
Cutting waiting times, treating those who have waited the longest and putting the system on a sustainable footing for the future is my immediate priority. I have been absolutely clear that short-term action alone will not deliver … administration. Last week, I announced that £145 million will be made available this year for targeted action on waiting times. One hundred million pounds of this allocation will support activity to bring down the longest waits within …
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS winter pressures
… hour waiting target in September 2024, what specific goals has the Welsh Government put in place to reduce waiting times during the winter months? What interventions are planned to tackle delayed discharges, staff shortages and inefficiency in triage … they're more efficient than Welsh providers. Powys patients already feel like second-class citizens due to longer waiting times for treatment compared to other areas across the country, and proposals that deliberately extend waiting times will only …
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Questions to the First Minister
… course, it is right that we all represent people who have been waiting a very long time on waiting lists. It is the length of waiting lists in terms of numbers and it is the length of time … through the supplementary budget, which we hope can be passed today, in order to spend on bringing down waiting times and making the system sustainable, because it is unacceptable. Wherever people are—and that, of course, includes people …
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Business Statement and Announcement
… Senedd. Now, the report makes it very clear that every health board in Wales is failing to meet waiting time guidelines for treatment after a first seizure, and, in the case of my own local health board, Hywel … Dda University Health Board, some patients are waiting up to 36 weeks to be seen, the longest waiting time on record. Now, Trefnydd, I'm very concerned about these waiting times, and I'm also very concerned that …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… still does face ongoing challenges, I accept that, and it recognises that people are frustrated and concerned about waiting times. But Betsi has made real inroads in reducing some of the waiting times for the longest waiters, and … will continue to prioritise reducing waiting times as we move forward. Thank you …
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Ophthalmology services
… transformation were insufficient. I am determined to change this. I recognise the pressure on ophthalmology services, and the waiting times inherited from the previous administration are far too long. Reducing waits is one of this Government's immediate … numbers. In our 100-day plan, we've committed to reviewing NHS performance, including the impact that long waiting times are having on patients …
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Report of the Ministerial Advisory Group on NHS Wales Performance and Productivity
… deliver care to us day in, day out. One area that the public have focused on is the waiting times, and most of that focus is on the orthopaedic waiting times. But it’s also clear that, month … month, those waiting times are reducing, and at a faster rate than any other time before. It’s true also to say that there has been significant improvement made in the out-patients' appointments, and again that was …
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Report of the Ministerial Advisory Group on NHS Wales Performance and Productivity
… for the coming 12 months, including ambitious plans to continue to reduce the waiting list, eliminate two-year waiting times for planned treatment and restore a maximum eight-week wait for tests by March 2026. Over the coming … management. These will be essential to our plans for the year ahead as we continue to cut long waiting times and build on the improved planned care performance that we have seen over the last three months. Secondly …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
… work to do in this space. One of the problems with the motion is that it conflates overall waiting times with cancer waiting times. The waiting time for normal elective care is very different from the 62-day …