Hospital Waiting Times

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:38 pm on 20 March 2018.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:38, 20 March 2018

Well, the Welsh NHS has shown annual improvement in waiting times since August 2015. There was £50 million of additional expenditure in 2017-18, and ministerial scrutiny will of course make sure that that progress continues in the future and that we maintain the focus on improving the outlook when it comes to referral-to-treatment times, and also in terms of—in terms of referral-to-treatment times and, of course, all the other targets that we have in the NHS.