17 December 2025 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The devolution settlement
… tandem to ensure Wales is at the bottom of just about every league table. At a time when people are waiting months, sometimes years, for NHS treatment, when standards in our schools are slipping year after year, and …
12 July 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies
… colleagues, who are far more expert in what's actually happening on the ground to tackle the waiting lists. I think it's important to look back to the start of the pandemic, because what happened then … care, to pause for a period of time to deal with the pandemic. So, the waiting lists built up at that time . I think it's fair to say that, even before the pandemic, the NHS was working …
8 May 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
… number of parents come to see me, where their children have learning difficulties, but they're waiting considerable amounts of times for statements to come through. Also, I know that we had problems in our pupil referral units …
2 March 2022 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Eating disorders
… shouldn't have to explain themselves time and time again as this young person had to do: 'I've just been discharged from primary mental health services after waiting 12 months for it. I've only had eight … now. If I want further care, then I have to apply again through my GP and wait a very long time again.' Those are her comments. It's not acceptable within the current frameworks that our young people …
11 November 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 11
… your employer on whether that's been successful or not. Often, a lot of people are waiting for a long time to find out whether they're going to be given that reasonable adjustment, and then they can …
4 June 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… surely, First Minister, you can understand that, anybody going for a scan, it's a worrying time for them; anybody waiting for those results, it's even more worrying. And when those results don't come through …
10 November 2025 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… slot, possibly, in December, so if we should bring it for debate in December, or wait until, maybe, January time , when we have more figures. See what they say. Okay. And then we'll bring it back. Thank …
23 May 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… pleased, in one breath, to hear that, but mindful, obviously, that the original target for eliminating two-year waits within Wales was March of this year. It is important that we understand if this is a real target … medical staff within hospitals the length and breadth of Wales, but they still represent three times the number of patients who are waiting 18 months in England, which has a population 18 times bigger than Wales …
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 organisations representing the patient's voice
… get the pain management, as you say, they are often concerned and worried about the length of time that they may need to keep taking that pain medication and then what wider effects that might have on their … know that different parts of the NHS in Wales are affecting the length of the waiting lists and different times . So, we do have a little bit of a postcode lottery in Wales at the moment, with some …
20 October 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Prohibition of Greyhound Racing (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
… the wider animal welfare licensing, plus also the response to the greyhounds, has been sitting there waiting for quite some time for a Minister to take it forward …
8 February 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with Allied Health Professionals
… waiting list for physio and then they're on a waiting list for mental health. They come to the services at different times , they don't get the treatment at the same … time , and perhaps it would be useful if teams came together and patients weren't waiting on different lists at the same time . So, to refer back to the question about NERS, the programmes have worked quite well …
19 September 2023 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… loss. But, here in Wales, over half of the highest risk eye care patients are left waiting beyond the target time for treatment and, therefore, at risk of irreversible sight loss. The Welsh Government consulted on ophthalmic services … Government plans for ophthalmic services and an update on what actions are being taken to tackle the waiting lists …
24 September 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food Processing: Panel 5
… relationship. I'm sure I'm not the only man that spends a fair bit of time in a pub waiting for some shopping to be completed, and that happens with my domestic arrangements, but if you …
19 October 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
… community dental services? And in that question as well, are we aware of the length of time that people are waiting as well? Is there enough data on this …
17 January 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Healthcare inspection and funding
… people in Wales waiting two years or more for treatment, compared to 227 individuals waiting the same amount of time in England. The Labour Government receives £1.20 for every £1 spent on the NHS—how many times have … funding from the UK Government and that initiatives are in place to address these problems. Again, how many times have we heard that? Perhaps the most damning finding in this report, and the most depressing, is that Healthcare …
15 January 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… clearly not implementing them if you’re saying that you have done them already. Now, of course, long waits have become emblematic of Labour’s quarter century of management of the health service. The fact that Wales has … consider that almost half of cancer patients don’t receive the treatment they need in time , with even longer waits for conditions such as gynaecological cancers. The targets of the Welsh Government’s planned care recovery plan, which …
18 May 2022 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… oversight over Glan Clwyd Hospital's emergency department. If your answer is to restructure at a time when people are waiting for operations, and you want the whole health board to be thrown up in a tizz …
18 October 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… with regard to calls from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine to publish NHS data on emergency department times without the application of breach exemptions. Now, Minister, what I want to understand is—. As I understand it, you … you think that you record data in a transparent way in terms of the length of time that people spend waiting in an A&E department, and why don't you want to know and publish the true …
13 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… was essentially taken off the table, or at least for a very, very, very long time , and we're not prepared to wait that long. And I think we've made it clear that we do think road …
30 January 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
… any questions—. I have many more questions, but I know that we don't have time to run on, so I will wait until the end, if there's time . Thank you …