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
… quite a lot. But segregating emergency and planned care, do you see that as a way to reduce waiting times in the long term …
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
Thanks, Chair. We want to move to cancer waiting times in the short period we have. I'm conscious we've rehearsed quite a lot of this in our inquiry on gynaecological cancers, so I'll try and …
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
… terms of reaching those targets and particularly, as well, what the reasons are behind the challenges and extended waiting times in audiology and endoscopy. Thank you …
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
… highest level on record. So, I suppose I'm just trying to understand why the performance in reducing waiting times has worsened, despite the significant focus placed …
21 June 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Refugee Week 2022: Healing
… mental health support available to refugees arriving in Wales. Specifically, I wanted you to provide figures on waiting times and lists for those trying to access those support services, after it was revealed that, on a UK level …
12 July 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
… just said. I think, clearly, we need to be ambitious in what we're trying to achieve. The waiting times position is clearly not at all where we would want it to be for our patients, certainly … but the workforce pressure to deliver the targets we need to achieve is really quite challenging, at a time when the workforce, coming out of COVID, are already very tired, exhausted, slightly demoralised. There are all the other …
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… the Member paints, of this being a condition that has always been a problem in the Welsh NHS. Waiting times in the Welsh NHS had been falling for four and five years in a row up until March …
25 October 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
… have a situation at the moment where the figures that are published in terms of those four-hour waiting times in our emergency departments are misleading and inaccurate. That is not good enough. It’s not good enough …
25 October 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
… and 12 hours based on when patients arrived and left the department, but the official method for calculating waiting times is different. It uses specific clock-stop times , in some cases reflecting when a clinician has determined …
25 October 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
… like to thank my party and Darren Millar for tabling today's crucial debate. Long waiting times in accident and emergency departments are directly linked to worse patient outcomes. There are systemic failures in the management of our …
8 June 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… what the frustration is that you hear in the Chamber today, and you have heard, Minister, for some time . We have poor communications—there were a couple of examples in Sam Rowlands's contribution—and lack of escalation … was discussed yesterday, we're all too familiar, of course, with Ysbyty Glan Clwyd's emergency department— waiting times have not improved since the report was published. You've heard specific examples from Members across this Chamber …
19 October 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with nursing directors
… way that is understandable in terms of staffing and making sure that if there are any undue waiting times , or not being seen for care in a timely manner—how is that then communicated with the patient …
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
… hasn’t really worked pre pandemic as well as it should have done. If we look at cancer waiting times , the most recent stats for September being 59 per cent, which means around a third of patients are …
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 allied health professionals
… the service. It has also been, like I said earlier, instrumental to actually keep our pain management programme waiting times down, because through the validation process, a lot of people may realise that this is not something they … doing all this work, which is fairly time intensive. And those are, then, not surprisingly, the same services that really struggle with high numbers of patients waiting , no way of actually finding out whether they still need the …
18 October 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… response from the Minister, the Minister and the Government have tried to frame the debate around A&E waiting times and breach exemptions as a matter of presentational semantics. This is intentional to distract from the real issue …
17 October 2023 , Plenary
Debate: The Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ Annual Report 2022-23
… established.' The UN concluding observation that accompanies the recommendations stresses the need to 'Urgently address the long waiting times faced by transgender and gender questioning children in accessing specialised health services, improve the quality of those services, and …
28 March 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… and social prescribing within harder-to-reach communities. This Welsh company has already used its technology to cut waiting times in England, managing to clear a dermatology backlog in Swindon in just six months. Most importantly, patients, GPs … patients can connect with local community providers without a GP appointment. Given that we are looking to reduce waiting lists, First Minister, and reduce pressure on primary care services, as well as increase access to important services such …
10 October 2023 , Plenary
Debate: 'NHS in 10+ years: An examination of the projected impact of Long-Term Conditions and Risk Factors in Wales
… Clwyd. As you'll be aware, I have Glan Clwyd Hospital in my constituency, which experiences long waiting times for A&E, together with out-patients and fellow services, which accommodate and care for people in the Vale …
10 October 2023 , Plenary
Debate: 'NHS in 10+ years: An examination of the projected impact of Long-Term Conditions and Risk Factors in Wales
… spend more per head on health than they do in England, yet we have worse outcomes and longer wait times . But with their usual smoke and mirrors, they point to spending per head across the Bristol channel, but …
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering our well-being objectives
… had this afternoon. The one overriding narrative that has dominated the last 12 months has been the NHS waiting times , and the scale of that challenge has got deeper and darker as each week and each month has …