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Questions to the First Minister
… Will the First Minister make a statement on patient waiting times at Glan Clwyd Hospital? OQ60734
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… University Health Board, whether that's mental health services, whether that's access to GPs, whether that's waiting times or, as quoted in previous reports, Presiding Officer, the dysfunctionality of the health board. We all know, the …
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: The Mental Health and Well-being and Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Strategies
… experienced the largest average deterioration in their mental well-being as a result of the pandemic. And yet waiting times for local primary mental health support services are disproportionately longer for Welsh children compared to adults …
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Questions to the First Minister
… However, it is the lack of community beds that is creating a slow hospital flow and thus impacting waiting times, because Princess of Wales has about 300 beds, and 160 of those are filled with medically fit patients …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The health service
… for the whole of north Wales. And whilst we regularly hear about the challenges facing Betsi, improvements in waiting times are beginning to show. I welcome the new chief exec and chair, as Llyr Gruffydd said. For instance …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… compensatory element and decreasing funding in the wake of increasing staffing costs, leading to redundancies, thus longer waiting times, and, indeed, driving some GPs to consider their and their practice's future. Another practice in my constituency has …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… raise this with you today, but such are my concerns. First Minister, NHS diagnostic and therapy service waiting times for July this year show an eleven-fold increase in the number of people waiting over eight weeks for … following a stage 4 terminal cancer diagnosis, was not even advised of the treatment options available at the time of this diagnosis, instead, just saying simply that a referral will be made at some stage going forward …
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Questions to the First Minister
… are committed to reducing waiting times across the whole of Wales, investing £170 million recurrently to support improvement, and £15 million to support transformation of services. October data demonstrates that waits over two years have reduced …
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
… colleagues over time and over many years, but it's no secret that Labour has sadly been running our NHS into the ground, with nearly 600,000 patients languishing on waiting lists. We also have more than … into debt and financial difficulty as a direct result of the Welsh Government's failure to address NHS waiting times? Thank you …
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Short Debate: A burning issue: Tackling oesophageal and stomach cancer in Wales
… innovative and often cheaper tools and techniques to help alleviate the capacity crisis facing Wales's endoscopy services. Waiting times and pressures lead many people who can afford to do so, and some who can …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The health budget
… last few years. Indeed, large inflation hikes and serious acuity of patients' conditions, post COVID, presenting, including theatre times, combined with increased real need and demand from patients across Wales for NHS services, and also scalic, rising market … NHS and the people of Wales. And the Welsh extra resources we are using to catch up on waiting times, following the disruption caused by the pandemic, is real. So, colleagues, let us be utterly frank …
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… ask for a statement from the Minister for health on Welsh Government efforts to tackle escalating cancer waiting times in the Aneurin Bevan health board? I make this request because recent data showed an increase in people waiting …
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
And so, based on that funding coming through, the expectation is to see waiting times drop within the next 12 months …
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
… additional allocations are dependent and need a commitment from the NHS to deliver on planned care and reduce waiting times. They have been clear that, 'This is what we expect from the allocation …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
… was recently at the Cardiff and Vale team, where they've worked miracles, really, in turning around their waiting times. And as the committee knows, we will be publishing our new strategy for mental health, as well …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on Special Measures at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… the board to ensure quality and safety governance systems and procedures respond to these issues within a set time frame. Deputy Llywydd, the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being and I remain concerned about mental health … board is now rectifying. It's worth noting, however, that there have been some improvements in relation to waiting times for a local primary mental health support service assessment, with 74 per cent of referrals being assessed within …
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… have forecasted a budget gap of £646 million over the next three years, does the Minister accept that waiting times will continue to worsen under this Welsh Government …
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… has the Minister made of the impact that cuts to local authority social services will have on NHS waiting times in 2024? OQ60459
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… concerns about dental services, and you often repeat that your new contracts are increasing the number of first-time NHS patients. However, this is to the detriment of both dental services and the Welsh public, and distorts the … providing what NHS work they can. Minister, what measures are you taking to specifically address recall appointment wait times …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Digital and AI technology in the NHS
Plaid Cymru has been clear for some time that improving the digital infrastructure of the NHS should be a key priority for the Welsh Government. Indeed, this was one of the key recommendations of our NHS action plan … Emergency Medicine urging the Welsh Government to include breach exemption figures within the published data for A&E waiting times, the absence of which is giving a misleading impression of the true extent of demand for front-line …