Waiting lists and planned care

Tom GiffardConservative

13 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days

…parameters that she set herself. Now, what we've seen, and we heard from Rhun ap Iorwerth, is that NHS waiting lists in Wales have climbed to a record high for the seventh consecutive month. We heard from James Evans that every health board in Wales is in some form of enhanced monitoring or special…

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Eluned MorganLabour

13 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days

…over 100,000 Welsh citizens who are delivering our public services. We invested £28 million to cut waiting times and £13 million on better end-of-life care. We've launched our North Wales Medical School, training tomorrow's doctors in Wales for Wales. We've invested £7.7 million in our Welsh centre…

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Joyce WatsonLabour

13 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days

You won't have the £28 million to help cut long hospital waiting lists, and you won't have the £7.7 million that's been invested in the burns unit at Morriston Hospital. So what I say to people is this: if you want investment in healthcare, not at your own personal cost, which you won't have the…

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Janet Finch-SaundersConservative

13 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days

…Welsh Labour, supported by Plaid Cymru over the past 25 years, have led to some shockingly high waiting lists, poor educational outcomes, a collapsing public transport system, and our roads are in disrepair—I could go on. Social services completely underfunded. So, there's always new hope when a…

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James EvansConservative

13 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days

…by the end of 2022. Well, here we are, nearly two and a half years later, thousands of people on a waiting list, people waiting in the back of ambulances, and people waiting in hospitals for social care just to go home, and all they want from this Government is answers, leadership and…

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Rhun ap IorwerthPlaid

13 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days

…ambitions for Wales. The First Minister's proclaimed priorities are admirable—yes, we must bring down waiting lists; yes, we must prioritise creating green jobs; yes, we must raise standards in our schools and better connect our communities. But, 100 days in, the truth is that there's no plan and no…

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Rhun ap IorwerthPlaid

13 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days

…The First Minister took some weeks to decide what her priorities were and settled on these: cutting waiting lists in the NHS; creating green jobs to tackle the climate emergency; increasing educational standards; and connecting communities. Now, I am willing enough to accept that it would be…

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Andrew RT DaviesConservative

13 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days

…the Labour Party. But, closer to home, the First Minister set the target quite clearly of reducing waiting times, and I raised this yesterday in First Minister's questions, highlighting the 50-day challenge that the health Minister's brought forward. Yet, in the first 100 days of the First…

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Lynne NeagleLabour

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?'

…children, including taking action to address the gaps in allied health professionals across Wales. Waiting times for ND assessments are too long. We have seen a 59 per cent increase in children and young people seeking assessment. As the FM made clear yesterday, we need to start doing things…

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Gareth DaviesConservative

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?'

…it may only be once a child is in childcare that it becomes clear, and families then have to deal with waiting times for assessment. So, it's important that the Welsh Government lays out how it plans to remain responsive to changing trends in neurodiversity in Wales, and ensure that there is…

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Sam RowlandsConservative

13 November 2024, Plenary

Topical Questions

…And my final question—sorry, Llywydd—is just understanding your expectation around the impact on waiting lists more broadly. Because of course this will, and should, create more capacity in our hospitals, to ensure that people are treated who are on existing waiting lists. I'm wondering, in your…

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Altaf HussainConservative

13 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language

…issue. Cabinet Secretary, all the talk has been about more money for the NHS in order to tackle waiting times. In fact, the main reason Wales is getting so much extra funding is due to the money that the UK Government is spending to tackle NHS waiting times in England. However, pumping billions…

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Eluned MorganLabour

12 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…people from all the sectors, and people with lived experience, to find solutions in terms of reducing waiting times and, more importantly, securing sustainable services. The NHS Wales Executive has also undertaken a review of children's neurodevelopmental services. So, we recognise there's a problem…

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