25 October 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
… lot longer than four hours in our emergency departments who are not included in the four-hour waiting-time figures. And I want to quote—. You said it's actually a time target for treatment; that's what … But according to the FOI request, which was returned, which included the breach exemptions in the four-hour time , the actual figure was 9,844 patients spending longer than four hours in an emergency department. And …
18 November 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with mental health and psychological support organisations
… with saying that—but do you think, given the things we've discussed this morning with regard to waiting times and so on, that people are being prescribed medication rather than being put on the waiting list …
22 November 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Digital and AI technology in the NHS
… slow in the adoption of technology that will help to unburden an overstretched health service and cut down waiting times . Overall, 53 per cent of people would like to frequently use the internet for health-related activities … the future—1.3 times higher than those who would have done so since the pandemic began. This demonstrates the importance of the roll-out of the NHS app, which has been unacceptably slow and still isn't being …
13 July 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… listening to the exchange between the leader of the opposition and the First Minister yesterday in regard to waiting times and that's a line of questioning I want to continue today. Can you confirm that the number …
12 July 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
… the Chair's point, really. At the moment, the headlines that we see in the newspapers are around waiting times , things we can count, so they're measuring activity. One of the things that goes on behind the … moment, we're counting things and saying, 'Yes, we'll treat them within this time , this is the time it takes to treat them', but what we've been calling for—and it is more complicated …
12 December 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Welsh Government has regarding the health and education budgets, recognising those recent disappointing PISA results and unacceptable NHS waiting times …
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
… Hospital and a minor injuries unit in Neath Port Talbot hospital. She went to MIU, thinking that the waiting times would be less. That's something that is guidance on many websites, but it was appointment only. She …
2 December 2021 , 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
… time . So, that’s 58,000 women not coming forward. And what we’re seeing by those waiting times and people not coming into the system is, when they’re coming into the system, they’re actually being …
6 December 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales
… visiting, district nursing, to make sure that staffing levels are adequate across the services? We often talk about waiting times and potential blocks in the system, so what work is being undertaken to make sure that adequate staffing …
18 October 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… enhanced community health provision in Denbighshire, particularly with the attitude you've previously displayed in discussions in times gone by on this matter. As I've previously mentioned to you in this Senedd Chamber, I've been conducting … and make careers in health and social care more attractive, to act as a remedy to the chronic waiting times and bedblocking under this Labour Government …
29 November 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare? - evidence session 13
… applied consistently is obviously really important. But I also know that there is work going on to reduce waiting times in relation to neurodivergent learners as well. So, we are working in all parts of the system …
29 June 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—'Waiting well? The impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales'
… pleased this afternoon to debate the Health and Social Care Committee’s report on the impact of the waiting times backlog. I move the motion in my name. What is important to say is that before the pandemic …
25 May 2022 , Plenary
Debate on petition P-06-1249: Provide a clinical pathway, medical care, and specialists for people with Tourette’s syndrome in Wales
… that we commissioned a demand and capacity review of neurodevelopmental services last year to better understand the increased waiting times and the pressures on the neurodevelopmental service and to try to identify options for improvement. After receiving …
19 September 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… way that we have tried to advance here in Wales over many years. The best way of reducing waiting times is to have fewer people needing to be referred to those tier 4 services, as they're called … feel that they've got nowhere else to go other than the specialist services, where they will often wait and then find that that service is not the service that is right for them. So, we are very …
25 April 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The National Diagnostic Strategy
… out what is wrong with a patient is vital to treating them. Prompt diagnosis can save lives, saves time and money, and can improve patient outcomes. Diagnostics also have an important part to play in preventative health … the NHS in Wales. This plan outlines recovery and transformation objectives for planned care in Wales, to reduce waiting times and move towards sustainable elective and diagnostic services by 2026. I am today announcing the new diagnostics recovery …
22 November 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… show a clear willingness to learn lessons. But, in failing to publish breach exemption figures in your waiting times statistics, the Government's shown a complete inability to listen and to learn from what the RCN and workers …
21 November 2023 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… suffering on a daily basis with a struggling accident and emergency service at Glan Clwyd Hospital, with long waiting times , as we don't have a minor injuries unit in Denbighshire, with local people needing to travel out …
14 November 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Children’s Rights
… that we as a committee have undertaken to date, such as the worrying prevalence of gender-based violence, waiting times for mental health services, a large number of children in care and the sometimes unacceptable standards of support …
8 November 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
… you care deeply about this; you made it one of your priorities. But there's no publicly available waiting time data for the various gynaecological conditions—one of those, of course, is endometriosis, but there are many others …
8 November 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
… improvements in some areas, and that's, of course, welcome when we're talking about the two-year waiting time , of course. But there is in urology not the same progress. Can we have a reason for that …