, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… that we were having earlier—I'm not sure if the Member was in his place at the time—was in relation to the importance of flow in the hospital in order to improve access to emergency provision … that improved flow. We are already seeing fewer lost hours in ambulance handover, more rapid handover, people waiting less time in emergency departments, people being discharged safely more quickly. We want to see that happening in all parts …
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Electoral Commission
… satisfactory for us to say we'll wait and see, but 20 years does seem a reasonable time to wait …
, Plenary
Debate on petition P-06-1249: Provide a clinical pathway, medical care, and specialists for people with Tourette’s syndrome in Wales
… from going to an educational psychologist, school, speech and language support and various different places, but each time the waiting list increases and the end outcome becomes further away, which I mentioned to the Minister yesterday. In the … parents first, because they spend the most time with their children and theirs are the opinions that need to be listened to first and foremost. Now, there are waiting delays in the system, we know that, but they …
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: The Future of the Crown Estate in Wales
… were stood there now, or the First Minister, saying how you're going to improve our health waiting treatment times, then I could agree with what you're saying. Diolch …
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Prostate cancer strategy
… through my time in the Senedd, when we were looking at waiting lists, actually cancer waiting lists targets were missed almost every time they were coming out from the centre of Welsh Government. So, do you admit that …
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: Progress on ‘Together for Mental Health’ Delivery Plan
… all for mental health issues, and of those who receive treatment, many of them do have to wait too long. I do welcome certainly the fact that a report has been commissioned by the Deputy Minister to learn … been waiting for that for a long time. That hasn’t been received yet. We’ve been waiting a long time, as I said, and I think it’s correct to say that the dataset was meant …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
… anyway, because they really want that person to have that job, and then they've got to wait a long time to get a decision made and to claim that money back. I attend the Wales regional stakeholder … worked with the supported internship programmes. The other one, of course, that we've been waiting for for quite a time now is the universal support programme coming into Wales. We're not really sure how that …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Planned Care Recovery Plan
… think, for example, that it's important to include things like diagnostics and therapies in our waiting list times because, actually, there are thousands of people who are waiting for those. Those are not included in the English …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session - panel 6
… What we want to expand upon is that proactive harm review where we have patients who have waited beyond the time period that they should have waited in the scheduling of their appointments. So, I want to increasingly …
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Bus Services (Wales) Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
… late along the rest of the journey. And also buses really do spend a lot of time stationary, waiting to move on, just in case they get caught in a traffic jam. Is this going to deal with …
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2025-26
… still we are waiting for the HS2 consequential, and it’s clear that we might have to wait some time. We were told repeatedly—and this has been said lots of times, and it will continue …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Update on winter preparedness
… Member does point to other pressures within the health system: two-year waits, you've mentioned before, and I've responded to those issues numerous times, and we've made it clear that we will tackle those two … seen sooner, so that frailty is identified sooner, rather than people having to wait in the A&E for a longer time. So, that'll take pressure off the acute settings. You asked about GP recruitment; you …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals
… spoken quite a bit to our managers throughout Wales over the last couple of weeks. This period of time is always difficult. January, February, December is always a difficult period for discharge. So, basically, every occupational therapist that … problem. And social care is a major problem. So, our OTs that work in social care, the waiting list times are substantial, so that causes two problems. So, it causes problems with emergency discharges from hospital, and …
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… good to see a statement with input from both Ministers. Now, I have numerous cases of children waiting lengthy times for diagnosis. One example is a boy who started on the journey two years ago when he was …
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… the suggestion from Peredur and supported by Joel and other Members, to request a debate in Senedd time and wait to hear their response. Hopefully, we can put some of the well-thought-out arguments from the preservation …
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Ophthalmology services
… right eye. The electronic records didn't work. They didn't work across the borders at the time, so if we're aiming to get electronic records being shared in Wales, we also have to consider how they … geography, and follow-through. Firstly, honesty about harm. Between 2021 and 2023, as the number of patients waiting beyond safe time frames climbed past 70,000, Wales managed to record only 45 incidents of harm. This was not …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Cabinet Secretary, there are some horrific reports of people waiting completely unacceptable times for an ambulance. There is a recent account in Montgomeryshire of someone showing symptoms of a stroke waiting for five hours for an ambulance …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… last week, and we're pleased to see, is that the statistics office are now producing the waiting-list time on the basis of individual health boards, which I think is far more meaningful for the population … are performing a lot better than others, which means that there will be some, perhaps, that need to wait longer than others. Obviously, we’re interested, as Welsh Government, to try and avoid a postcode lottery …
, Legislation Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
… provided in the letter to the Llywydd and this essentially relates to the availability of UK parliamentary time. We're waiting for Welsh Government to respond to the first two merits points and we'll bring their response …
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Priorities for social care, mental health and women's health
… without having to have a referral and that support would be based on need, not having to wait a long time to get that referral and to be seen. The focus would be on the person's biggest …