24 September 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Winter preparedness in the NHS
… the population. But, of course, the reason for that is your failure to tackle waiting lists. The reason that people go back time and time again to see GPs is because they can't get treatment done …
27 March 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The role of local authorities in supporting hospital discharges: Evidence session 2
… officials that put barriers in our way in order that we can achieve those tasks in a timely manner. I'm trying to be very tactful about the way I say this. But we need to be working … not the case, and we now have regional arrangements because we couldn't afford to wait any longer. And at the time , local authorities didn't know whether we were going to get any funding and support …
30 March 2022 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… out to the company and stand ready to offer support to those affected at this distressing time . I'll have to wait for the headset for the moment, because he asked the question in Welsh …
24 March 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Older People's Commissioner for Wales
… bit of a golden ticket that children and their families really sort of strive for and wait for for a long time . And that required real tenacity, persistence and quite well-resourced families in terms of confidence …
8 March 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
… England, so we have been asking them to try and correct the situation for a long time , but we're still waiting for that to happen …
27 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
… profound on us, and particularly patients in the community, with no care around them, that, often, wait very long periods of time whilst considerable amounts of our capacity are unavailable to us to be able to respond …
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
… deprivation, or did it look at other factors, such as whether older people or women are waiting for longer periods of time …
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
… done to ensure that those from the most deprived communities get equal treatment, i.e. they wait the same length of time as those in the more affluent areas …
30 June 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… that 400 student nurses and midwives have been told there's not a job waiting for them when they graduate, at a time when the NHS has serious nursing shortages. Now, the supplementary budget allocates £145 million …
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Winter Pressures
… the service depending on the level of acuity of the patient. At the most critical end, median response times have been positive, and within the range that we expect. At that end of the acuity range … been, certainly last year, colleagues will remember, particular pressures at the Grange, with ambulances waiting outside for very, very long periods of time . The most recent information I’ve seen is encouraging; not anything we’d be content …
12 May 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Bus Services (Wales) Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Okay, thank you. I spend a lot of time stationary, looking at the stadium, waiting for the bus to be able to move on again. Alun, you've got some questions on franchising …
14 December 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… need to discuss with unions in terms of wage levels. But that aside for the time being, the stories of patients waiting hours for ambulances are far too common, I'm afraid. I can point to the case … ambulance with a dislocated hip; in another case, an 88-year-old woman suffering from dementia had to wait 11 hours with a broken hip. But even more concerning is that I understand that the ambulance service …
4 February 2026 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Health board governance
… have supported the idea of specialist treatment hubs for a long time , because in other places, we've seen them be a vital part of reducing waiting lists. But developments of this kind, of course, must take full … have already waited too long—quite literally, of course, when it comes to getting treatments. They deserve better than that. They deserve a health system that works for them, not one that lets them down time and again …
25 October 2023 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
… the inconvenience of choosing another day than the inconvenience of facing last-minute cancellations, waiting at stations, or standing for a long time on a crowded train. There are often cost implications for people; however, we would not …
28 March 2025 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Inter-governmental relations and workings
… policy for much longer than you've been First Minister and many people have been waiting for this for a long time …
15 May 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
… room will have casework with constituents contacting us where they've outlined unacceptable levels of time that they've had to wait , or a family member's had to wait , for an ambulance. And if you ask … performance not by governance or finance, they'll measure it by is an ambulance turning up in a timely manner to support them and, then, where appropriate, transfer them into a hospital setting. That's how they would …
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
The one that you will have heard me mention several times , and I've made many statements about it, is waiting lists, particularly the two-year waiting lists. It's clear to me that not only has that …
7 October 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 3
… enable two people to get to the workplace. This is anecdotal, but I heard many times that people would have to wait 26 weeks in order to see if they can access support, and the problem … they need support in making some of the necessary adjustments, and they're told, ‘Well, you have to wait 26 weeks to see if we can get that support or not’, then that, of course, does put …
27 January 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times
… the private sector for treatment. They should be able to wait on the waiting list and get care in a timely way. What I think we're seeing, as I've tried to outline in my statement …
24 September 2025 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The NHS
… Cabinet Secretary for health will think twice before making untruthful accusations in the Chamber and instead respond, next time , to serious questions in serious debates. The people of Wales and my own constituents deserve more than that. The … Senedd election, over 38,000 people have died whilst waiting for treatment. Accident and emergency waits remain appallingly long, and ambulance response times are still dangerously long. Wales in terms of the NHS is the poor man …