3 October 2023 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… really important that health boards do work with the individual hospitals to significantly reduce the time patients spend, particularly waiting in ambulances outside …
5 November 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… number of people waiting over two years. We have a target of moving that towards nobody waiting for that period of time , and we are making progress towards that target. We'll also see, when we publish the …
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2024-25
… billions of pounds rightfully owed to us could have paid for this shortfall in TfW's finances several times over, with plenty of money to spare to reverse the devastating cuts that have been imposed elsewhere in the … this matter shows how little hope we have of things changing. I'm aware of the time , Dirprwy Lywydd. We cannot wait for Westminster to grow a conscience; they treat us with contempt. I would urge Labour and …
16 July 2024 , Plenary
Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering the government’s priorities and legislative programme
… scale of the problems facing our health service. For example, the section on two-year waits is based on a very specific time frame and belies the fact that two-year waits for treatment are actually on the … rise once more. Not to mention the fact that the Government’s own target for eliminating such waits entirely was missed almost a year and a half ago. Meanwhile, the praise of cancer performance rings rather hollow when …
5 June 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 funding
… chance to tell that upcoming Westminster Government, whatever their hue, that Wales is not for waiting any longer. No more 'maybe next time ' for Wales; no more being told to wait our turn that never comes. These billions …
3 April 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The role of local authorities in supporting hospital discharges: Evidence session 4
… that. We are seeing works that are taking 1,000 days plus to do. People are waiting such a long time for something that a health professional has deemed absolutely necessary for them to live independently …
2 April 2025 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… you are giving to those individuals. Some of these people, as Julie Morgan has said, have waited an awful long time , and there are now further delays in accessing the compensation that they can get …
12 March 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
… page on that. I think urgency is the key issue for the industry. They’ve been waiting an awfully long time , and I absolutely concur with your position regarding women drivers and the difficulties for them. So, let …
4 March 2025 , Plenary
Debate: The General Principles of the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
… have been identified, because, too often at the moment, errors are identified but we have to wait a very long time for those errors to be corrected. So, those are the amendments that we will table during the …
4 March 2025 , Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2025-26
… particular has grown significantly in recent years, we've seen little to no improvement on waiting lists, ambulance response times and targets for cancer treatment. Our universities face an existential crisis. Our schools are struggling. The arts and …
5 February 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
… whether the discussions with the UK Government are productive, because we do seem to have been waiting a very long time for this women's residential centre to actually happen …
23 October 2024 , Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
… sequestration evidence review panel. They will be reporting their findings to the ministerial round-table any time soon. We're waiting for it. The work of the group is founded on the structure of the scheme, as was … summer, in many of the things—and I'll touch on some of them now—we're not waiting , we're getting ahead with some issues. So, when we have the interim scheme design, we will then undertake …
9 November 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Minister, will you now apologise to Mr Evans and his family for the unacceptable amount of time he had to wait for an ambulance? Will you now consider setting targets against all ambulance calls, regardless of their categorisation …
4 June 2025 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… respond to these particular points in his response, is why every opportunity to reduce those waits is not being utilised. Time and time again, I've had both independent and third sector organisations approaching me to share their … was with them just recently—talked about their audiology services. They say that they could clear those waiting lists within three years in audiology, and they're not getting the engagement from the health board to enable them …
10 May 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health and Social Care Outcome Framework
… that aspect, and I think there will be pressure on us to focus almost entirely on clearing these waiting lists, but I think that would be a mistake, because, if we don't do that, the system will … for me, it's important that we focus on these preventative measures at the same time as clearing those waiting lists. And with regard to individual responsibility, it sounds good, but, actually, we spent two years telling individuals …
29 November 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… told several times that these delays are a result of Wales having the worst A&E waits and slowest ambulance response times in Britain. With the majority of mental health facilities in south-east Wales operating out …
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session—Topical matters
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I know the First Minister is getting short on time , so I'll try and be succinct in my two questions, and they are slightly related. So, there are two questions. I've got one … And my final question was on orthopaedic surgery, regarding people who are waiting and have been waiting a long, long time for hip operations, back and knee operations, people who are living on extremely strong pain medication just …
17 September 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… work overtime, particularly at night, as they feel that they could spend significant amounts of time in an ambulance waiting to discharge patients. And so, in light of the seriousness of the concerns raised, I believe that …
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Can I just ask about orthopaedics? You could be waiting on a waiting list for orthopaedics, but if it's impacting your life and the life of those around you, if you're working age, for example, then … pressure right across the place. Are you reprioritising in terms of not just the amount of time that people are waiting —which, of course, concerns those who are—but the people who are actually waiting and their ability …
1 May 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… the things I've been doing is spending a huge amount of time really chasing down those people who've been on very long waiting lists, unacceptably long, waiting in pain. Of course, urgent cases always … them jumping the queue at the expense of those people who've been on the waiting lists for a very, very long time …