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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…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times
The Member makes comparisons with other parts 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…
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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…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times
The Member makes two separate points, I think. There are certainly patients waiting longer than the Welsh target of the two-year wait in hospitals in England. We have patients who are in that position, as we've discussed previously here. I don't want to see…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times
Yes, certainly. There's additional funding, which we've provided, to support improvements in planned care. We've provided support through NHS Wales Performance and Improvement, which is the newly reformed NHS executive, focused on helping health boards to…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times
Well, from a party that plans to vote against more money for the NHS next year, that's quite the litany of points that the Member has put to me. If he believed that those issues were genuine, he would be voting for the budget this afternoon to provide further…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times
Well, in response to Mabon ap Gwynfor's questions, my message to NHS staff right across Wales is that I don't share the grudging acknowledgement that he gave to the progress that we've seen. I want to say that we are warmly welcoming the step-change that we…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times
By the end of December, almost 100,000 more first out-patient appointments, over and above normal NHS activity, had been provided in the five months since August, and a further 28,000 additional out-patient appointments had been booked for January, all as a…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. As the First Minister and I have said many times in the Siambr, cutting long waiting times is the public’s and our No. 1 priority, and this has not changed. Thanks to the hard work of the NHS all over Wales, we've made considerable…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Hospices
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. We have had today an opportunity to discuss and to agree on the important role that hospices play, following the short debate again in September. I want to set out today the Welsh Government's position on the future of hospice and…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Hospices
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Prevention of ill health—obesity'
Yes, indeed, and the focus in 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' is consciously and deliberately on supporting children and young people to avoid obesity and overweight, for the reasons the Member sets out. The plan will broaden our approach to diet and…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Prevention of ill health—obesity'
Well, the policy that we are advocating through the delivery plan has been discussed at Cabinet, for reasons the Member will be familiar with—the contribution that can be made right across the Cabinet table to reaching the objectives in the strategy. One of…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Prevention of ill health—obesity'
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'd like to thank the committee for the report and for tabling the debate this afternoon. Living with overweight and obesity is one of the leading causes of ill health in Wales, and it's projected to overtake smoking as the biggest…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
As the Member will know from my previous responses to his questions—and it is a perfectly fair challenge—I have intervened directly. In fact, the health board is in higher escalation because of the themes emerging from a number of these reviews, including the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I thank the Member for the welcome that he gave the health park in Llantrisant. I think that it will make a significant contribution in improving waiting times for diagnostics and surgery in the south-east. Just in the context of Cardiff and the Vale…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Improving access to healthcare and reducing waiting times is a priority for this Government. We have taken direct action to support the health board to reduce its orthopaedic waiting lists. This includes support from NHS Wales Performance and Improvement, the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I'm sorry to hear about her constituent's experience, and I'm obviously not able to comment on that particular situation, but I hope that she will write to whichever health board it is so that they can address the concerns that she is raising with me today…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
One of my top priorities is to ensure that waiting times across Wales fall and people can access treatments in a timely manner. To do this, we have supported health boards with additional investment, national and clinical support, and have prioritised…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Yes, certainly. So, the Help Us Help You campaign—this cycle of it launched on 1 November—is there to provide that information, so patients or the public can look first to go to their pharmacy for whenever that's appropriate. Of course, we have large numbers…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The Welsh Government promotes pharmacy services through the national Help Us Help You campaign. This high-impact approach ensures strong public awareness of how community pharmacies provide timely advice, treatment and accessible care.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I'm grateful to the committee for its work, and I will be very keen to see what recommendations and advice the committee provides. It is important that we make sure that women have access to screening and take up the offer in greater numbers. I would also…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Public Health Wales is responsible for co-ordinating and delivering screening programmes in Wales. They are continuously assessing and implementing interventions to support uptake across all screening programmes, addressing inequities and working with…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, I think it's worth bearing in mind that, despite some of the figures that the Member has referred to in his question—it's also worth bearing in mind from a context point of view—the median time from arrival at an emergency department to triage was 16…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The average time spent by patients in emergency departments in November was 2 hours and 53 minutes. However, time spent by many patients in departments before admission or discharge is concerning. In response to this, we've escalated health boards for poor…
