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Welsh NHS likely to miss waiting lists target ahead of crucial election

NHS likely to miss waiting lists target ahead of crucial election The Welsh government's key pre-election health targets look set to be missed, BBC Wales

I'm on six different NHS waiting lists - it's taking over my life

Wales said waiting lists "remain far longer than in England for too many patients". "Only Reform UK has a plan to bear down on the bloated bureaucracy of the Welsh NHS

Drakeford links Welsh Labour's collapse to lack of new powers from UK government

NHS waiting lists, the decision to expand the Senedd and change Wales' voting system, and a feeling

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waiting lists", Plaid said it would commission an independent review of how the NHS is performing. It has been elected under a promise of improving public services and it will be keen to show

Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth becomes Wales' first minister

NHS waiting lists, to improve education results, and in creating the right environment for the economy to grow and for job creation, because Wales

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NHS, waiting lists remained high compared to the rest of the UK. There was, Bethan says, a feeling that public services in Wales

The BBC Wales Senedd election debate fact-checked

NHS, Welsh Labour leader Eluned Morgan said waiting lists had come down "for nine months in a row". This is correct. However, the number of waits is still much higher than in the months before

If Plaid win in Wales, that won't mean independence - at least not yet

NHS. The health service regularly appears in the top three concerns for voters, according to the You Gov issue tracker. Shortly after taking over as leader in 2024, Eluned Morgan made cutting waiting lists

Starmer sets out changes to education, health and courts in king’s speech

Wales – a bill to make it harder for people to buy their own council houses and another to all but end the leasehold system. The leasehold bill will introduce a ban on new flats being

Starmer says he will campaign for Burnham in Makerfield

NHS waiting lists, and a drop in UK net migration to the lowest level since the start of the Covid pandemic. But in interviews and speeches in recent days, Burnham has been sending a different

Starmer prepares for King's Speech as he faces leadership crisis

NHS and police reforms, along with a route to potentially nationalising British Steel. But whether or not Sir Keir is in position to deliver the planned laws remains to be seen, amid splits amongst

Wes Streeting resigns as health secretary - his letter in full

lists fell by 110,000 in March - the biggest monthly drop outside of Covid since 2008 - meaning that we are on track to achieve the fastest improvement in NHS waiting times in history. The only

Welsh Labour faces ‘existential’ change as party braces for May election defeat

NHS patients have to wait more than a year for hospital treatment, compared with about 4% in England. Welsh children’s reading, maths and science skills fell to the lowest recorded OECD assessment levels

‘Why are we even doing this?’ The week that left Britain’s PM looking like an interim leader

Wales, one of Starmer’s lesser-known MPs did her best to light the spark on a contest. If this was one of the more unpredictable weeks in recent UK political history, Catherine West