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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on Coronavirus
… cases, these ailments are easily treated in early stages, but as time progresses, they get harder and harder to treat effectively. Due to COVID-19, the waiting lists for treatments are longer than ever before, and there are …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
… waiting lists. Take one woman in my constituency who's been waiting for gallbladder treatment, and she's been knocked back six times. And every time she has to go back to the doctor, every time they have …
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… the case. I do appreciate that there are problems and issues around waiting lists, and I've raised the issue a few times around the teeth of people in mid and west Wales. But I just wonder …
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Topical Questions
… major sporting event to our nation—this one for the very first time. I'm sure Members from across the Chamber, like me, can't wait to see the yellow jersey, the iconic yellow jersey, cycling through the …
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Questions to the First Minister
… nation is it acceptable for a child to wait an additional 202 days to get the outcome they need in one region compared to the other? This is not timely. Having experienced the care system myself, both …
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 1
… going to wait for permanent fibre connections then we may be waiting 10 years or more. That's a very long time; it's too long, perhaps, for many people who want to use this kind of service …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Management of NHS pressures
Waiting for an ambulance is, of course, only the first part of the story. Critical delays in response times are being driven by overcrowding and a shortage of hospital beds at the other end, which means that patients …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session - panel 7
… and, as Anton and Helen have already alluded to, there are challenges in trying to get enough education time for their own workforce, let alone optometrists. So, we've worked hard for an initiative to actually have independent … day with a practice, and it is a part-time practice, but there have been some practice closures around north-west Wales, and they have the highest waiting list in Wales. For routine optometry high-street appointments …
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
… parts of the United Kingdom. We'll provide dates and data when the time is right, and the Member shouldn't have to wait very long for the Cabinet to make those choices …
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… but they are still significant. Here's an idea for getting those waits down—and I'm not going to mention surgical hubs this time either: doing more operations and treatments on the weekend. Patients are two and … half times less likely to be discharged on a Saturday or a Sunday than a weekday. This is only contributing, I would also add, to the bed blocking situation we have, which, of course, causes so many other …
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Questions to the First Minister
… targets or on the direct child payment, or will we have to wait for a change of Government in less than a year's time now to see a change of direction …
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
… number of people waiting for homes was astronomical. We only built 5,000 homes across the whole of Wales last year. So, do you not agree with me, Minister, that it is about time that Welsh Government took …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 - evidence session
Thank you for that. How many children are still waiting over two years for treatment in terms of referral-to-treatment times …
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Winter Pressures
… say that there are more ambulances waiting outside hospitals this year than last year. In fact, there have been considerably fewer. That matters a lot, because people are spending less time in the back of an ambulance and … welcome that when he has an opportunity to put the record straight. He also made the point that waiting lists are going up; waiting lists are in fact going down. We've published data that shows you they …
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… number of occasions, and there has been improvement at times, but people in Ystrad in particular have been telling me that they're waiting an average of 10 days between deliveries, that there's an expectation of having … difficult, and have been also saying about missed appointments—hospital appointments—because of not getting the post in time. We know of the pressures on our NHS as well, and missed appointments are things that we really, really …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session - panel 10
… backed—. There was an evidence review at that point. We're still waiting for that to be published back, so, I think it is timely to ask if our nutrition label is as good as it can …
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
… people in Wales stuck on a waiting list, 7,000 people waiting over two years, and barely half of cancer patients starting their treatment on time. Now, these are not just statistics, they are people's stories—patients …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… the community to avoid ambulance transport and admission to hospital, and timely discharge. And we've also invested £5.4 million in emergency department waiting areas since 2022-23, which has seen enhancements to seating areas, with better information …
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Stage 4 of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
… that demand for placements remains high, and children cannot be left waiting for appropriate homes because of political ideology. Now is not the time to introduce measures that could further destabilise a system considerably under strain. My main …
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—Dentistry
… from more constituents who are now without an NHS dentist for the first time in their lives—including me—or constituents who have been waiting for years on a waiting list, and I'm very concerned about the …