Waiting lists and planned care

Carolyn ThomasLabour

27 January 2026, Plenary

Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27

…service would be fine. It's because of the Conservatives not funding it properly in line with need. Waiting lists are coming down and capital funding is now being made available for long overdue investment. That includes our roads and our major assets renewal, such as the deteriorated A494 River Dee…

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Peter FoxConservative

27 January 2026, Plenary

Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27

…management that's been created over many years from Plaid and Labour? Well, we heard earlier: 10,000 patients waiting 12 or more hours in A&E, more than one in four people in Wales stuck on a waiting list, 7,000 people waiting over two years, and barely half of cancer patients starting their…

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Alun DaviesLabour

27 January 2026, Plenary

Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27

…the next financial year. Also, we had an interesting conversation here earlier this afternoon on waiting lists, and the health Secretary analysed and reported how waiting lists are falling. Now, I’ve taken some inspiration from Mark Isherwood, in fact, and I looked at some of my previous speeches on…

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Mike HedgesLabour

27 January 2026, Plenary

Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27

…service, it saves money, and they'll actually get it before the appointment. The work to reduce long waiting times this year, combined with the NHS planning framework enabling action, will help health boards to make sustainable changes to the way services are provided. All departments outside health…

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Sam RowlandsConservative

27 January 2026, Plenary

Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27

…have resulted in Wales having the highest unemployment—you can't shy away from this—the longest NHS waiting lists in the UK, and the worst education outcomes in the UK, as well as the lowest pay packets. It hasn't been working, it's not working today, and it's not going to work tomorrow. Labour's…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

27 January 2026, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times

The Member makes a point about two-year waits. I hadn't said at any point that nobody in Wales today is waiting for more than two years, so there isn't a data question. I've set out the numbers, and they are accurate, they are validated, and they're tested by statisticians who are independent of the…

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James EvansIndependent

27 January 2026, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times

…to make sure they are correct. Also, Cabinet Secretary, can you outline today—? Yes, it's good that waiting lists have come down, but can you just outline how many people have left that waiting list voluntarily, either because they've gone private or for some other reason, and how many people have…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

27 January 2026, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times

I thank the Member for those questions. I would hope that her constituent will not be waiting for two years for the treatment that she referred to, but if she wants to write to me separately on that, I'd be very happy to look into that. That is not my understanding of where the performance is in the…

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Jenny RathboneLabour

27 January 2026, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times

Congratulations to you and everybody who has been involved in this amazing turnaround. To have fewer than 1 per cent of people waiting for over two years in Cardiff and Vale is really fantastic. I want to look at your laser-like focus on performance. One of the areas where my constituents are still…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

27 January 2026, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times

…of the UK; she'll remember that the NHS in England were celebrating a fall of, I think, 86,000 in their waiting lists in November last year, which I think was also a record. With a very much smaller population in Wales, we are able to say that over 24,000 people are coming off the list. So, I think…

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Laura Anne JonesReform

27 January 2026, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times

…made when lots of people are still waiting just under that two-year bracket. Why do you think that waiting lists are coming down so significantly better in other parts of the UK? What lessons can we learn from that, whilst, of course, keeping everything free at the point of use? Also, expanding on…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

27 January 2026, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. The focus that the Government has, as with the health board in north Wales, is making sure that patients get seen as quickly as possible. I make absolutely no apology for supporting the health board to do that and challenging the health board where that…

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