, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… services that they need to be able to access. In terms of mental health services, we know that waiting times for mental health services—. I know we're shortly going on to the oral statement on NHS waiting … times. I think the reduction in waiting lists for mental health services is very positive, and of course, that can also include access to beds, as well as all-important out-patient and primary care, which …
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
COVID-19 recovery and winter pressures on public services
… observed. There are two solutions to that. One is that we are going to issue revised guidance on waiting times. There will still be quite large numbers of people where a 15-minute waiting time will be required … but we are able to reduce the waiting time to five minutes from 15 minutes for others in the population. For example, for people who've already had two doses of Pfizer and are now having their third …
, Plenary
Short Debate: Endometriosis and the women’s health plan in Wales
… patients you speak to are having to fight to access care, and even when they do, the wait times are huge. And even though the endo nurses'—she says—'are a fantastic resource, they don't have enough … waiting lists in Wales have increased by 62 per cent since the start of the pandemic. The lengthy waiting times can be partly attributed to the lack of specialist services for endometriosis in Wales, so we need that …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. As the First Minister and I have said many times in the Siambr, cutting long waiting times is the public’s and our No. 1 priority, and this has not changed. Thanks to the hard … Wales, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board still has more to do to meet its plan to cut long waiting times. But here too there has been progress. Dirprwy Lywydd, last week, the latest referral-to-treatment times data …
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Neurodivergence Improvement Programme
… which I believe will deliver concrete results. You asked about what are we doing specifically to reduce neurodevelopment waiting times for assessment for children. So, we're working with the NHS delivery unit, which is undertaking a mapping … and to look at the waiting lists. And we're also developing a children's neurodevelopmental practitioners' network. Waiting times are not where we want them to be, I absolutely acknowledge that, and they vary so much that …
, Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—'Waiting well? The impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales'
… members of the Health and Social Care Committee for your report and for the opportunity to discuss waiting times on the Senedd floor today. We know that the pandemic has had a profound effect on our health service … with waiting times proving a real problem. I welcome the announcement made by the health Minister earlier this year, ensuring that by 2025 no-one will be waiting more than a year for treatment in most specialities. And …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, back in April 2022, as the then health Minister, you promised to eliminate two-year waiting times for NHS treatment by April 2023. You failed. In December, you promised to reduce the number of people waiting … failed yet again. As if this was not bad enough, the figures actually show that the two-year waiting times actually got longer in terms of the number of people waiting in April, rising by 15 per cent …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… will be a major contributor to the work of dealing with the backlog in the health service—the waiting times. But we also need to build in new capacity there and new ideas. Now, when the Minister announced … plans to cut waiting lists and waiting times recently, we were told that some specialisms may be excluded. Incredibly, it was suggested that this could even include orthopaedics, where waiting times are so, so long, but we have …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Child and adolescent mental health
… this evening, because it really does concern me that there are two major issues. One is the CAMHS waiting time. It is far too long, and I'm looking forward to hearing from the Minister what the figures … are around the waiting times, because I'm a little bit unclear what they are. And we heard some from Laura Anne Jones in the debate, but I read some different figures this morning, so I would ask …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Group 7: Learner Voice, Well-being and Protection (Amendments 52, 53, 5, 6, 129, 130, 131, 132)
… about the missing middle. Additionally, the Health and Social Care Committee recently published its 'Waiting well?' report on waiting times within the NHS and recovery from COVID-19. It found a number of issues specifically in regards … CAMHS and specialist CAMHS and the lengthy waiting times there specifically. Delays in treatment for mental health conditions, including eating disorders, can not only intensify the suffering of individuals, they can also result in more complex needs and …
, 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
… appreciate that, thank you very much. So, in terms of where we are today, in terms of waiting times from iCan through to GP referrals and self-referrals into the allied health professions, if I needed that service … wait for that, for that service to be delivered? And what are the effects of the long waiting times on out-patient physiotherapy for people with musculoskeletal problems? Do you think there's any link there between longer …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Long COVID
… your claim in regard to the information that you have had from health boards—that the average waiting time for people to be seen in long COVID services is 23 days. You also go on to compare this … week waiting time for access to specialist long COVID clinics that have been set up in parts of England. Can I ask you: are the two comparisons that you make on a like-for-like basis, and …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… gave the health park in Llantrisant. I think that it will make a significant contribution in improving waiting times for diagnostics and surgery in the south-east. Just in the context of Cardiff and the Vale specifically, long … waiting times are falling there too. Over the year to last October, there was a 69 per cent reduction in those waiting over two years. So, there are signs of progress already. In terms of the timing …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Ambulance waiting times in the south-east are a matter of great concern, Minister, and this is compounded by A&E waiting times. Figures released this week show that the Grange hospital in Cwmbran has regrettably had the … miners' hospital closed, and Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in Ystrad Mynach opened without an A&E. With longer ambulance waiting times, the British Medical Association has warned that patients in Wales are having to use taxis …
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… funded minor injury unit at Llangollen Health Centre'. It reads: 'The Wrexham Maelor A&E is overwhelmed, with wait times of over 12 hours. Outlying Minor Injuries Units would help to alleviate pressures and wait times for treatment …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Inquiry into the future of general practice in Wales: evidence session 4
… has been the case for quite a while. Obviously, with the pressure since COVID to continue to improve waiting times and reduce waiting times in planned care and urgent care in hospitals, that's led to quite …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 2: Llais
And are they listening to you? That's the question. Because patients out there think, 'Oh, my waiting time is so and so.' We've all got personal experience of waiting for 12 months and more and that … thing, and with the serious issues that people have got, health issues, and they're still waiting a long, long time …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… difficult question to answer, and it's a question I'm very concerned about. The waiting times for ambulances are far too long, and that's why I had a meeting yesterday with the ambulance services trust … hospital as a result of the better triage that happens. But it isn't enough, and the waiting times are unforgivable. That is why I have been asking today and yesterday about what more we can do. Because …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… place, the latest Audit Wales structured assessment recognised strengthened corporate systems of assurance and the concerns about waiting times data—those have been rectified. But there is more work to be done in terms of improving the quality … per cent reduction in the number of pathways waiting over two years for treatment. The average waiting time is 21 weeks in Betsi—that is a fact. Two-year waits have been reduced by 81 per cent for …
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… look at the statement again and to look at the statistical records in terms of the waiting times statistics. I can assure you that I had already done that before raising it, that is why I raised … ask you, Trefnydd, have you now looked at the statement again and have you looked at the waiting times statistics for Powys? I assume that you have, given that you were so exercised about it. If you have …