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15 March 2022, Plenary

Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22

… extremely brief. Minister, with the additional £100 million going into health boards to help with waiting-list times, can we have some assurances that that money will actually go to the front line to make sure we actually …

8 February 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with Allied Health Professionals

… come into the service, which is a good thing, but then there's a massive lag in waiting list times, and it is a massive preventative strategy with chronic illness. You fall over and end …

17 September 2026, Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee

The Representation of the People (Electoral Registration without Applications) (Electoral Reform) (Wales) Regulations 2026: Evidence session 2

… that recruitment processes for local authorities cannot happen just overnight. To actually implement those changes takes time. We're still waiting for the electoral management software, which we're so dependent on for delivering this. The final specifications … ready with those suppliers until next week, so the pressure that's putting on them to deliver in time. Again, there are ways and means around it, but there's a lot of things. The Electoral Commission have …

2 May 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Neurodivergence Improvement Programme

… their diagnosis. So, Deputy Minister, I'd like to know what you're doing to reduce the waiting list times, and do you think that the £4 million here of the £12 million extra you provided will … many, but it's not the magic key to unlock all of the services. After a considerable wait for diagnosis, many constituents and people across Wales tell me there is a further battle to access services and support …

7 March 2022, Petitions Committee

Updates to previous petitions

… the report will be published. But I think now at this point, we are going to have to wait for the publication of it before we have a better understanding of where we can take this petition … now this is a matter of just putting it on the back burner for us for the time being, wait for that publication and then decide where we go from there. But I would like for us just …

6 December 2023, Plenary

Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Pancreatic cancer

… this pathway was implemented now. Earlier and faster diagnosis is needed; people with pancreatic cancer have no time to wait. With no specific screening or tests and vague symptoms, which are often mistaken for less serious conditions, diagnosis …

16 February 2022, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services

… had fallen to 61, and that drop has continued in the year since. There have been times that people have literally waited hours and hours for ambulances to be called from … Port Talbot when the first responder is literally within two minutes of the call. People are waiting significant lengths of time for paramedics or ambulances from miles away when there are trained people on their doorstep, who could …

14 November 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Evaluation of the Autism Code of Practice and Neurodivergence Update

… what they needed was somewhere to go for help and support, because one of the most difficult times is waiting for a diagnosis. I think, as you said, half of the children don't then actually get …

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

… reflect on some of the research that Danielle and I undertook, we looked specifically at the elective waiting list in England, looking at how it had grown over the course of the pandemic, taking a reference period … July 2021, because of the limitations of the data. Unsurprisingly, as was well reported at the time, the waiting list had grown rapidly. It's now approaching approximately 6 million in England. That's a growth of around …

8 February 2022, Plenary

Debate: Draft Budget 2022-23

… the additional £10 million for children and young people. Minister, we know that the number of young people waiting for more than four weeks for an assessment on mental health is the highest on record. So, I wonder … the next phase in April, I would like to ask whether those leaseholders are being asked to wait further time for essential safety works to take place. I finish once again, Minister, by thanking you for your engagement …

2 July 2025, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Health emergency

… encouraging to see the other opposition parties following suit. At the time of our debate at that point, waiting lists in the NHS included over 762,000 care pathways, affecting 582,000 individuals. Almost 58,000 of those … people every day since our debate back in February 2024. Over the same period, waiting lists have broken records another nine times, and every one of the seven regional health boards has stayed in special measures of one …

14 September 2021, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19

… really grateful if you could answer that comment. But, Minister, even before the pandemic, we were seeing waiting list times increasing, with people right across Wales living with life-changing pain. Over the pandemic, people understood that there … close to me was a fit and health person no more than two years ago. They've been waiting for a hip operation, and now, they're on the strongest type of painkillers that doctors can prescribe, and …

5 June 2023, Petitions Committee

Updates to previous petitions

… questions to ask the health Minister. I would like to leave this petition open for one final time and wait for the response from the Minister. If the committee could push these three questions and wait for clarification …

2 February 2023, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Papers to note

… full up until that point. So, whether or not you'd want to do it around that time or wait until June would be a matter for you to decide …

19 May 2026, Plenary

Statement by the First Minister: The First Minister's Priorities

… Minister for Health and Care will begin the work immediately of putting our plan in place to cut waiting lists, but cross-Government, longer term thinking will be a hallmark of this Government. In this case, I have … benefits of our natural resources, and the powers we need to improve people’s lives. Many have waited a long time for this moment, and, with a deep sense of gratitude and humility, I fully intend to reward …

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

Shall I start? First of all, our managers really do talk about the model of the traditional waiting list times, and how they are based from the GP to the consultant, and maybe that needs looking … doing; it's that 'what matters to the person' conversation. And, again, do professionals have enough time to really do that properly in this current structure? Now, you can have a 'what matters' conversation for five minutes …

12 May 2022, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Election of Temporary Chair

… the key, and speed. Older people quite often will say to me, 'We haven't got time to wait', so it matters that this stuff is done quickly, it matters that implementation is done well. We know, potentially … free at the point of need, and a much simpler system to access. I think a lot of time and money goes on complex assessment and eligibility systems. We need to trust people who need care and support …

1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 2: Llais

… and it appears to be very, very different. You would naturally be concerned if you're waiting two or three times as long …

28 June 2022, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… the progress coming to an end now. The impact of the pandemic has meant that people are waiting 16 times longer than they were pre COVID for some diagnostic tests, and the lack of a national cancer action …

15 June 2022, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services

… able to give any further details on how this role will help improve early diagnosis, reduce the time women wait for treatment, and also improve education, so that both clinicians and patients can recognise the signs and the …