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Questions to the First Minister
… that we can understand whether the Government has been declaring the figures correctly when it comes to waiting times within our accident and emergency departments. Can you confirm this afternoon, First Minister, that the figures on breach exemptions …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
… different health boards developed their own approaches to exempting patients, resulting in variation and inconsistent reporting. At the time, it was clinicians who asked policy makers to provide guidance to support better patient experience and avoid gaming … states clinical exceptions should be included in data reported by health boards, with an agreed process for how waiting times are calculated and considered in performance monitoring. Now, following the release of data gathered by the Royal College …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… services, we get lots of complaints about urology services, we get lots of complaints about the overly long waiting times that people have to endure in order to get their tests, their treatment and their access to the … been writing to them, frankly, for years about that department. In terms of mental health, we're still waiting for the review of reviews to be published. It was supposed to be completed by the end of last …
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Six Goals for Urgent and Emergency Care Two Years On
… Government's target of 65 per cent having been merely ornamental for some time. Meanwhile, the median response time for amber calls is 1 hour 15 minutes and 18 seconds—a full 12 minutes slower than the previous … quicker if Wales had a fair funding model from Westminster? And finally, when referring to problems within the waiting times, for instance, the Cabinet Secretary, like Sunak, refers to the impact of industrial action by NHS staff. But …
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
… election. The situation is particularly acute in the context of cancer, where the NHS record in Wales on waiting times has been declining over a period of time, with the latest statistics showing that almost half of Welsh …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… all want to see a better A&E system here in Wales and those waiting lists and waiting times reduced. But you referred to your plan, and there clearly has to be robust monitoring and oversight of the … just wonder if you can be confident in the robustness of your plan to deal with A&E waits when you don't hold what I see as pretty basic information about what are the leading causes …
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Questions to the First Minister
… course, it's not just ambulance waiting times that need to be urgently prioritised, there's also a need to tackle referral-to-treatment times too. According to the latest figures, the number of patients waiting more than …
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Short Debate: The rural way of life: Shooting and its benefit to the environment and the economy
… the Welsh Government got on with their day job in trying to fix the record of the NHS waiting times and failing education system instead of meddling in our rural way of life …
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Questions to the First Minister
… the waiting list. However, even though the boy was classed as urgent, there would be a 43-week wait time for an initial appointment. First Minister, I was shocked to hear this, and I've obviously written …
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Statement by the First Minister: Delivering Wales's priorities
… think that people in Wales rather like having a stable Government able to make choices, even in difficult times. Other models are available, as the welcome return of Liz Truss to the airwaves reminds us all that different … see improvement. I set those out in the statement on the NHS and wanting to see improvement in waiting times. The investment that we are making at real cost to other parts of the budget in Wales needs …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Age Friendly Wales: Our strategy for an Ageing Society
… friendly Welsh Government? Why then do older people spend much longer in our A&E departments? The average waiting time in A&E for those over the age of 85 is seven hours and 47 minutes—almost double …
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Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with allied health professionals
… lists now in light of the pandemic, with long waiting lists, you can imagine that the initial problem that patients have presented with has changed over that time, and mutated, to coin a phrase. So, in terms … fair reflection of where that patient's at, is there some sort of process of reassessment during that waiting time to accurately get a true picture of the exact treatment that patient needs? I suppose that …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: National Health Service
… inability to access dentists is leading to people seeking private care. The same applies to those on long waiting times for treatment. I've received many letters from electors who have gone private for hip and knee surgery …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: GP practices and funding
… leads to huge pressures for the vulnerable people who then have to make huge trips or have huge waiting times to get the services they require. Clearly this short-sighted arrangement within the health system here is having …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: GP practices and funding
… Healthier Wales' ambitions, that's what we will do: rebalance. But we must bring waiting times down. To do this, we have to look at the whole system. But I would like to conclude just by thanking our …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: GP practices and funding
… triage patients waiting in ambulances outside A&E departments, which would improve the patient experience while reducing both waiting times and hospital admissions; and that the future of primary care needs to be secured by placing appropriate resources …
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Unheard: Women's journey through gynaecological cancer'
… report. In order to do this, we would need to shift resources away from efforts to improve waiting times and cancer services. The data that we already hold shows what needs to be done. We are taking steps …
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Unheard: Women's journey through gynaecological cancer'
… pleased to accept the vast majority of the committee’s recommendations. We’re working hard to improve cancer waiting times and ensure people get faster access to diagnosis and treatment. We know that where …
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Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years: Improving mental health in Wales
… ensuring that mental health services are accessible to all those who need this support and to reducing waiting times. I think it’s vital that we take a preventative approach and we work across services to support the …
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Questions to the First Minister
… all provision is full. I know of a school where the local authority is unable to provide any waiting times; it’s indefinite if you have a child that needs to go to a pupil referral unit. The …