21 October 2026 , Plenary
Members' Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): An NHS first Bill
… waiting too long for treatment. Roughly a quarter of people are on a waiting list, and two-year waits have not been eradicated as was promised. A&E departments across Wales remain under tremendous pressure, and our planned … Patients want to be treated in a reasonable time and receive care that is safe and effective. If this Bill leads to a situation in which people are waiting years for NHS care because the system cannot utilise …
15 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education: Review of Higher Education
… will be entering the final year of their courses by the time any changes come in. Could you confirm whether you think that a two-year wait for this reform is acceptable to students, universities and businesses under …
5 November 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… finishing, and when an ambulance did turn up, my constituent’s 98-year-old mother was forced to wait more than nine hours in the back of an ambulance before being handed over to hospital. But perhaps more … acceptable that my grieving constituent has had to wait eight months for answers, and how is the Welsh Government ensuring that health organisations provide timely and, more importantly, accurate responses to complaints that they receive? Thank you …
13 December 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
… had a lot of evidence that said we should have done this a long time ago, and it's too slow. We're waiting another, potentially, three or four years before it actually comes …
26 April 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of the steel industry in South Wales - evidence session with Trade Unions
… our preference—electric arc furnace, hydrogen, as Alasdair says, technology is changing all the time , but we don't have the luxury to wait until the company or the Government are in the position to say, 'This …
22 March 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Minister for Health and Social Services
… years about poor performance by Welsh Government on the NHS. I don’t think this is the first time , and it saddens me to say that it’s definitely not going to be the last. For decades—yes … over 10,000. That’s patients waiting in pain, in distress and frustration for over 105 weeks, 735 days, 17,520 hours. And it’s not just referral-to-treatment times that are out of control. Just over …
28 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Escalation and further intervention to improve the quality of services in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… focus on the front line. I want to focus on getting through those waiting lists. I want to get those cancer referral times down. I want to make sure that people in north Wales can get the service …
5 December 2023 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… Cymru reported this week the longest an ambulance was waiting outside the A&E with a patient inside was 16 and a half hours, and the average time is two hours. Earlier this year I raised concerns …
14 May 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Tata Steel
… result of your visit, so what was the purpose? If anything, based on your statement, you've wasted time , to be quite frank. What is now happening at Port Talbot is monumental policy failure at both … semi-regular occurrence. You said in your statement that Tata should wait until after the next general election. It's a line repeated time and time again. Well, at the election will be too late. You said …
12 February 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… lady with a suspected heart attack had no observations over her 12-hour wait and never saw a member of staff over that time . This just isn’t acceptable, and these same stock lines that we tend …
19 October 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health and Social Care Winter Protection Plan 2021-22
… will ensure that health boards keep in touch with people waiting , and will offer them the support and pain relief that they may need during this difficult time . In the meantime, we will work up further how … intend to drive forward with reforms in order to make significant inroads into the waiting lists, and we will give further detail on these plans at our planned care summit in November. The Senedd will be aware that …
26 October 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Stroke
… target is one of huge concern. Since 2015, stroke emergencies have had no target time , meaning that patients displaying FAST symptoms can often wait several hours for an ambulance to respond to their call. And …
18 January 2023 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Management of NHS pressures
… reduce these figures and ensure people are seen in a timely manner. The delays in out-patient appointments, diagnostic tests and surgery have catastrophic impact on those waiting , as well as their families and their carers. Clinicians are … calling for people to assume greater personal responsibility in terms of exercise and leading healthy lives at a time when council cuts are being made due to a lack of Welsh Government funding. In my region, the people …
22 January 2025 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
… across the country, because behind these statistics are real people and real families waiting in anguish, unfortunately. It’s been said a few times that Wales ranks thirty-second for stomach cancer and thirty-first for pancreatic and …
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1
… the area of suicide prevention more generally. First of all, we will be establishing an all-age real- time surveillance system, and that's multi-agency working, which will provide really quick access to information and data … aware at the moment, in many cases, it's a question of waiting for the inquest process, which can take quite a long time . But, vitally, we'll also be able, then, to target our bereavement support. What …
7 February 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The health service
… sadly, her story is not unique, Llywydd. There are reports on a regular basis of those unacceptably long waits and ambulances queuing outside hospitals. In Plaid's motion, they also mention the GP crisis, and … Scotland, those were virtually eliminated some time ago. And, of course, when we talk about 25,000 people—. It's wrong, sometimes, to talk about statistics, because there are real people waiting in pain, affecting the quality …
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 Wales Cancer Alliance
… think, is the anticipation of getting a cancer diagnosis, because by that time , you’ve gone for a test and you’re waiting for the results. We see a lot of people hitting e-mails online and looking … new one, and that will be able to tell us actually what this has looked like during this time and compare it to the previous cancer patient experience survey. On the diagnostic front, I’ll bring Andy …
20 January 2025 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… update us once that meeting has taken place. I think we should wait for a further update, but I think that would then be decision time . We all know that there are priorities in the budget and … keeping the petition open forever, on an open-ended basis, but I do think it's worth waiting for the Cabinet Secretary, given that he's indicated that we can expect an update in the not-too-distant …
23 June 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability: Priorities for Rural Resilience and Sustainability
… issues. I hear what you said, and you said it last time I was on my feet in this Chamber, but we really have to wait for the advice of the technical advice group. They have been charged …
13 November 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report, 'Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?'
… people like us, to councils and officials, to schools, calling, e-mailing, waiting and being ignored or turned away. The committee heard time and time again that this ongoing struggle for basic rights was affecting their own health …