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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Delivering on our priorities: Reducing waiting times and strengthening primary care
… healthcare and rural preventative services. I started the Siambr session asking the First Minister about Powys and our waiting times. Many of our patients are waiting for two years because of the cross-border concerns and that … have patients now no longer able to access hospitals across the English border, so the waiting times have increased. So, I'd like your response to that please. And secondly, on social care, again in Powys, in May …
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Questions to the First Minister
… would wear it in recognition of her wish to demonstrate that. So, thank you for that. On NHS waiting times, I think there are reasons why people can begin to see improvement. In the last figures that were … available, our ambulance times improved, waiting times in emergency departments improved, the times that people were waiting for therapies were down by 10.5 per cent compared to the previous month, and long waits were starting to improve. Look …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Health emergency
… financial decision. And of course, I know that the Petitions Committee debated this very issue about Powys waiting times earlier this week, following a petition submitted by Joy Jones. It is indefensible, I think, to ask providers … Powys. Last month, the health Secretary made an announcement that £120 million will be provided to help cut waiting times. I thought, 'This is good news. This must be good news for Powys patients.' This is mentioned …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… would like to ask about knee and hip replacement waiting times in the Aneurin Bevan health board area, Cabinet Secretary, and particularly on the transparency and clarity of information. So, on the NHS 111 Wales planned care website … with regard to trauma and orthopaedics at Aneurin Bevan, it tells us that the average wait time for a first out-patient appointment is 26 weeks; that 10 per cent of people are waiting 61 weeks or more …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government performance during the Sixth Senedd
… under the huge pressures of that failure to deliver. We were promised that they would scrap two-year waiting times entirely, that they would hasten diagnostic tests, that they would improve the availability of appointments. These targets have … the budget scrutiny. Now, to be fair to the current Cabinet Secretary, it's true to say that waiting times have come down a little over recent months, and I truly do hope that he will succeed …
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Members' Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): An NHS first Bill
… least it shouldn't be. I believe we all want people across Wales to receive safe, timely care. We want waiting lists to fall and we want public money to deliver the greatest possible benefits for our patients … put the NHS first. Let's show the people of Wales that we take their safety, their waiting times and their public money seriously, by giving the people who know the patients and deliver their care the opportunity …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
… are neurodiverse or who have other additional learning needs. In terms of the issues you've raised about waiting times, I think it's important to emphasise again that children do not need a diagnosis to get support … million invested in the neurodivergence improvement programme. That was added to by a further £3 million for waiting times initiatives in relation to neurodivergence, before Christmas. So, there is a plan to drive down those waiting times. The …
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Business Statement and Announcement
… Action Wales's 'Seizing Change' report found that every single health board in Wales was failing to meet waiting time guidelines for treatment after a seizure. That report highlighted that patients in the Hywel Dda University Health Board … area were waiting up to 36 weeks to be seen, the longest waiting time on record, where National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines actually say the follow-up appointment should be within two weeks of someone …
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First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
… enabling us to assess whether this level of additional investment has had the longer term downward trajectory on waiting times that we want to see. So, I'm not as interested in a monthly set of statistics … interested in a 24- to 36-month set of statistics that show that downward trend in waiting times generally. So, you know, ask me in two years what I think …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days
… indeed, the Labour Party. But, closer to home, the First Minister set the target quite clearly of reducing waiting times, and I raised this yesterday in First Minister's questions, highlighting the 50-day challenge that the health … generally have confidence that the First Minister has the grip and the Government have the grip on the waiting-time crisis that Wales is facing, in particular, when there are 614,000 patients waiting on a waiting list …
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Finance: The First Supplementary Budget 2026-27
… were no proposed cuts to the basic programme put forward by Welsh Labour. The further funding for reducing waiting times in the health service continues with the investment that Welsh Labour began. Since that investment of £120 million … Labour in June of last year, and thanks of course to the hard work of NHS staff, waiting times in the NHS have reduced. This work must continue, and that means being clear as to what will …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
… our communities. Despite these challenges, we've seen real investment and innovation in our NHS to reduce waiting times and improve care. In Cwm Taf, we've got projects we can be really proud of. Y Bwthyn … seen a diagnostic and treatment hub at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. The temporary MRI facility there has cut waiting times by 50 per cent—a huge achievement, especially in these tough financial times. And finally, we have the …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Ophthalmology services
… the Welsh Government to address. Now, we know that under this Government here we've got the longest waiting times in the UK, but what our motion sets out today is that the biggest increase in the number … Wales. Now, the Health and Social Care Committee publishes a termly monitoring report, and that report tracks waiting times against the Welsh Government's own targets—a really valuable document and one that is made publicly available …
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Diolch. Cabinet Secretary, I just want to talk about waiting times, if I can. There has been an increase in funding provided by the Welsh Government to address waiting times. However they've not decreased across certain disciplines … specialities? And if so, what factors contribute to the underestimation of the scale of the challenges in reducing waiting times, not just in orthopaedics but across other areas as well …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
… issue. Cabinet Secretary, all the talk has been about more money for the NHS in order to tackle waiting times. In fact, the main reason Wales is getting so much extra funding is due to the money that … the UK Government is spending to tackle NHS waiting times in England. However, pumping billions extra into health is not the answer to tackling waiting times. We need to direct spending into social care, and that means directing …
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Questions to the First Minister
… look those 680,000 patients in the eye today and really guarantee that this allocation will permanently reduce waiting times in Wales, or are you really adopting—and this is what I think is taking place—the same … sticking-plaster approach of the previous Welsh Labour Government that failed to invest in the infrastructure to keep waiting times permanently down …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Hospital services and hospital closures
… When I speak to my constituents in Fflint Wrecsam about healthcare in Wales, they talk about access and waiting times. People tell me it's not working as it should. It's very much the same message that … professionalism of staff on the ground, people in north Wales have faced years of pressures on services, long waiting times and real difficulty accessing care when they need it. As part of dealing with this, as an example …
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Questions to the First Minister
… would also suggest is one of the big pressure points on A&E departments is obviously the waiting times that people are finding when they have to go on to the lists and they're not getting their … over time. Now, the health Minister, on Sunday Supplement said that she has not given up yet on waiting times—a direct quote from Sunday Supplement. The one waiting time that she was challenged to say whether the …
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Finance: The First Supplementary Budget 2026-27
… million of resource funding and £130 million of capital funding. We are prioritising extra money to reduce NHS waiting times. This includes £100 million of resource funding, £25 million of capital funding to develop new surgical and diagnostic … need for immediate progress on reducing the waiting list backlog, but we must also ensure that we keep waiting times down permanently. This is why we are also reforming the structure of the system, to build long-term …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
… that they will not move forward with their proposal to ask providers across the border to increase waiting times. I thought there should be some context to this as well, for those who don't know. But, for … And, of course, one of the First Minister's top priorities is to reduce NHS waiting times. So, it wasn't really a surprise to me when I outlined the situation to the First Minister yesterday—I was …