Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:58 pm on 25 January 2017.
Welsh Government targets say that no patient should wait longer than 12 hours for treatment in an accident and emergency department in our hospitals. However, figures show that the number of patients waiting longer than 12 hours for treatment was 31 per cent higher in December 2016 compared to the same month a year earlier. This is in spite of a 5.5 per cent drop in admissions in our hospitals. What reason can the Cabinet Secretary give for this increase in waiting times when admissions really have fallen in our hospitals?