26 April 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Planned Care Recovery Plan
… that this happens in Swansea Bay health board, which is why they have such a low level of waiting times . How are you going to get that sort of good practice embedded across the system so that people …
26 April 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Wales are being forced to go private, as the recent Health and Social Care Committee report on waiting times testified, taken together suggests, does it not, even if you maintain, against everything that every cancer charity in Wales …
2 March 2022 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Eating disorders
Thank you for that intervention. I am conscious of time , Rhun, but I think the key bone of contention, really, is the need for a new framework, because we know exactly where we need to get … milestones to reconfigure services towards earlier intervention, to meet the NICE standards and to achieve a four-week waiting time . The NICE quality standards are evidence based and set out six quality areas. They are supported by key …
24 March 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Older People's Commissioner for Wales
… appreciate that answer. And quite often, with things around talking therapies, it's waiting times , isn't it, is a lot of the issue. But that's probably a discussion for another time . Where do you think …
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… course, we have a unique approach in Wales, in the sense that we have a single, unified waiting time , which is different from the way they do it in England. So, there are different kinds of cancers, and …
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… Will the Minister make a statement on accident and emergency waiting times in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr? OQ57827
15 March 2022 , Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22
… patient flow and discharge to social care settings in particular, because we often see cases of bedblocking, ambulance waiting times because the fact of the matter is that people being discharged from the other side of the sector …
15 March 2022 , Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22
… really needs to be more detail about what this funding will achieve, with hard targets set to cut waiting times . Meanwhile, over £80 million has been allocated to addressing social care pressures, but we know that the sector …
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health services
… Labour Government have had oversight of this failing health board, and leading this oversight for much of this time was the First Minister, Mr Drakeford, who was then health Minister. As the First Minister outlined … health provision. The latest figures show that the health board in north Wales has some of the worst waiting times in Wales, and what have we seen the Labour Government here do? Taking this failing health board out …
7 March 2022 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… possible care. Currently no area in Wales is meeting this recommendation. 'There is a lack of ESNs and waiting times to see neurologists are over 12 months in many areas.' There is additional information on this petition …
2 March 2022 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Eating disorders
… supporting your motion with our amendment later on, as we need to establish targets, publish monthly statistics on waiting times for mental health treatment, including eating disorders, and we need to provide specialist care in people's communities …
15 February 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… would be put through this ordeal more than once. And the patient-carrying service, too, involves long waiting times . Trefnydd, people across the south-east of Wales were told that, when the Grange hospital opened, it would mean …
10 February 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
… currently on item 7, taking evidence from the Minister. We're currently taking questions around the waiting-time backlog, and then, at the end of this particular session, we'll come on to winter planning, and then the …
10 February 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks, Joyce. Well, we are committed to publishing the waiting times on those specialist psychological therapies, but, as I say, that work has been delayed because of the pandemic. We do have some data and that operational data …
10 February 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
… from the Royal College of Psychiatrists and they say to us that data is not routinely published on waiting times for psychological therapies, and they very often have to resort to freedom of information requests to get hold …
10 February 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
… looking at the figures, that all health boards have been trying to make inroads into their out-patient waiting times …
10 February 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
… well today. Minister, I'd just like to kick off in terms of your plan to address waiting times —you stated that that plan would be published before April 2022. I suppose there is some urgency in that …
1 February 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… red call from either of these two stations. There is already great concern about the horrendous waiting times for ambulances in the area at the moment, and this threat to the service would make things worse. Furthermore …
27 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
… Gill, regarding Betsi. The Wrexham Maelor Hospital is regularly in the news about long A&E waiting times , and, as a Member for the Vale of Clwyd, I'm acutely aware of the issues at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd …
27 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
… now over 4,000. So, that's just off the scale, really, in terms of the increase in waiting times . And that's people being discharged from hospital who then can't access the physiotherapy in a timely …