1 October 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… course, is preventing admissions by caring for people closer to home is equally beneficial to reducing any hospital waiting times , and using up space that really is needed elsewhere. So, do you anticipate that this funding will have … knock-on effect of helping reduce those waiting times as more hospital beds are going to be available, and more patients will be discharged in a timely manner …
17 January 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
… upon plans, to bring down the waiting list in total and deliver the two-year and 52-week waiting time targets. In that period, we've seen out-patient activity increase by around 12 per cent … issues that are playing out now in terms of the waiting list. We have seen a reduction in wait times . So, the number of patients waiting over two years is down by around 60 per cent over the …
29 June 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—'Waiting well? The impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales'
… committee their experiences and their expertise as we tried to better understand the impact of long waiting times for treatment. We're at risk at the moment of almost accepting that people are going to have to wait … term—but I think it was timely to do a piece of work on dealing with the long waiting times we currently have and how they impact people. The statistics are frightening, with something like 0.75 million people …
24 September 2025 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The NHS
… today with the opportunity, once again, to put on record that this Government is absolutely focused on cutting waiting times . In his opening speech, there was almost nothing that the Conservative health spokesman said that reflected the truth … urinary tract infection services available at 99 per cent of all community pharmacies; and in hospitals, by cutting waiting times , improving ambulance patient handovers and making sure people are discharged home when they are fit and ready …
25 January 2023 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Reducing NHS pressures
… Alexandra of Wales became a patron of the hospital in 1882, and it was long believed in those times that fresh air treatment and the sea air were beneficial to patients, particularly with chest and breathing difficulties … hands on it, and, since then, we've come to the situation we're in today, with spiralling waiting times , patients waiting up to 72 hours—yes, 72 hours—for ambulances and emergency treatment, and long waiting times …
4 June 2025 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… single measure. We just heard the Cabinet Secretary popping the champagne corks again about progress against two-year waiting time targets. The reality is that people in north Wales are being let down, because you … are over the border in England. That is an absolute scandal. And what is happening is that that waiting time target—. It was promised to be eliminated by the Welsh Government over two years ago and dealt with …
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… seen, treated and moved, either beyond the service itself or into a hospital, within four hours. The standard waiting time —the standard waiting time —from the moment somebody arrives to the time that their treatment …
20 March 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 2
Thank you very much. Good morning, Dr Pyott. I just want to concentrate a bit on waiting times . In Wales, we've got long waiting times , particularly for cataract surgery. I personally don't think it's any … Also, we've put significant resources into ophthalmology, so why do you think we still have such long waiting lists? I appreciate we've an ageing population, but just your views on that, please …
9 July 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… per cent and in Caerphilly, 22 per cent. Minister, I'm sure you'll agree that long waiting times for assessment and support can be distressing. Therefore, do you agree with me that, in order to reduce these … there should be a report on waiting times for young carers from when they're first identified to when their carers' needs assessment has been carried out? And what appropriate time targets for providing needs assessments should also …
30 June 2025 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… Prevent Powys patients who are treated in English hospitals from facing increased waiting times '. 'Immediate action to prevent Powys patients treated in English hospitals from facing increased waiting times . This decision was agreed in the meeting of the …
14 October 2026 , Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Local referendums on council tax rises
… both in terms of keeping people out of hospital and helping people to return home at the appropriate time , reducing delayed transfers of care. Wales has an ageing population and people are living for longer with complex care … months, citing low pay, poor conditions and limited progression. The Welsh Government does not currently publish data on waiting times for social care services, but stakeholders report long and growing delays, including waits for assessment for care packages …
17 January 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Healthcare inspection and funding
… practices facing such pressures that they are forcing practitioners out of the system, to colossal ambulance waiting times and huge waiting lists for treatment, the inspectorate is critical to drive the improvements needed. The HIW annual report gives … where the HIW report found that responses from patients about their care were mixed, including negative comments about waiting times and personal protective equipment, but positive comments about staff. We also know that staff at the hospital had …
18 November 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with primary care organisations
… the patient or what we think is our limit of our expertise, so to speak. The problem with waiting times and waiting lists is that the patient is then left in almost a limbo, and we feel … are asking for the advice from the secondary sector, but that's delayed because of the problems with waiting times . One of the things that we do—. Let's take orthopaedic situations, a problem with a hip …
19 March 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… colleague the Minister for Mental Health and Well-being has announced a programme of support to reduce the waiting times for young people in relation to a range of diagnoses, including of autism. That has funding attached … able to be rolled out, we are confident that, across the system, there will be an improvement in waiting times . In the meantime, that funding is there to reduce the longest waits , and I hope that will benefit …
13 July 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thanks for the answer, Minister, and whilst, of course, it's good news that that waiting time for a one-month period is coming down, but the long-term sustained trajectory is in the wrong direction of course … figure of people waiting on our waiting list here than in England. On top of that, the average waiting time here is 10 weeks longer than that of England. And one in four Welsh patients are waiting over …
20 March 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services on Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 4
… has worked. So, one example is in Hywel Dda, where patients with macular degeneration were reporting long waiting times for injections, and significant concerns. And we did have patients that were at risk, and, actually, some patients who … employed an additional doctor and nurse injectors across the health boards, and we are seeing less of a waiting time across the health boards. There's still more that needs to be done, but I think that …
7 January 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… that quicker. I know it won’t be of any comfort to him to know that the average waiting time in Cardiff is 25 weeks, which is a very different situation, and the same thing is true for … Cardiff and the other health boards need to look at. Cardiff is having a particular issue with neurological waiting times . They need to be looking at how they can work with other health boards …
16 January 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
… this budget for 2025-26 ensure that health boards are funded to buy English capacity based on English waiting times rather than the much longer Welsh waiting times here in Wales …
14 May 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session - panel 6
Thank you. I think we've got quite a significant variation in waiting time in that particular specialty area across our health board area. So, we've got a longer wait in Carmarthenshire than we have in Ceredigion … the moment, and have done for the last 12 months, by always trying to offer the shortest possible waiting time to the next patient on the list in order of clinical priority, so that we're mitigating …
7 July 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Priorities for social care, mental health and women's health
Diolch, Gareth. That's a really, really important question. In terms of waiting times , we have to tackle this. We have to make this better. In terms of psychological therapies, I know in particular that we are not … that we move to same-day access to mental health services, so that people are not waiting all that time , because, as you say, people can only get worse while they are waiting . It can get incredibly serious …