NHS Wales hospital waiting times fall for third consecutive month

The longest waiting lists for NHS planned treatments fell in more than a quarter of February, according to the latest statistics.

In February there were 15,505 cases in which someone expected more than two years compared to more than 21,087 in January, a decrease of more than 26%.

The Secretary of Health, Jeremy Miles, welcomed the fall and said that he showed what could be achieved when health boards focus on “delivery” and “new forms of work.”

But the figures suggest that considerable progress is still needed if the NHS in Wales must reach the objective of the prime minister to reduce the waiting of two years and approximately to 8,000 in March.

There is a two -month delay in the publication of NHS Waiting data that, evil at the end of March, will be seen in the figures published next month.

To achieve that goal, the Western NHS would need an additional decrease of 48.4% in the most pulmonary waiting in the course of a single month.

The Secretary of Health has already indicated that he believes that the NHS will be “quite close” to achieve its goal.

The figures also show some variation between the health boards on what progress they are doing to address the most pulmonary waiting.

In February there were still more than 8,300 cases in which someone had waited more than two years at the Betssi Cadwaladr Health Board covered by Northern Wales.

CWM TAF Morgannwg and Cardiff and Vale health boards have more than 2,200 instances.

However, the figure is found in 829 in Hywel Dda Health Board, which covers the west and parts of MID Wales and 280 in the Swansea Bay Health Board area. The Powys Health Board does not expect or about two years.

The NHS in England has virtual expectations of two years or more.

The number of two -year waiting at each Health Board in February:

The latest figures also show the total size of the NHS waiting list in Wales stood at almost 793,900 in February.

This was a decrease of around 2,900 patients, who explain patients who may be in multiple waiting lists, starting in January, but is still 74.9% higher than May 2020.

In a speech for NHS leaders earlier this month, thousands established a new goal of decreasing this number by around 200,000 duration next year and eliminating two more years completely waiting.

More funds are expected to be announced next week to help NHS achieve this, but the Secretary of Health warned that the Welsh government would see that it would recover the additional funds that do not meet their objectives.

Meanwhile, statistics show that the ambulance and A & e departments continued to experience significant pressures this spring.

In March, 50.3% of urgent red calls that receive a response in eight minutes, a deterioration or 0.8% compared to February. The objective is 65%.

In March, 66.9% of patients in all emergency departments of the NHS, less than four hours in the department from the arrival until the entry, transfer or discharge.

This was lower than the previous month. The 95% objective never has legs with.

Duration The same months 10,384 patients waited 12 hours or more. This was 1,437 (16.1%) more than in the previous month.

Miles said he was “very happy” that the waiting list had fallen for a third consecutive month.

“We still have more work to do to achieve our ambitious goals, but it is encouraging,” he added.

But the Secretary of Health of the Shadow of the Welsh conservative, James Evans, said that the statistics “are worse than a mixed bag.”

Hello, he added that it was a “will to bring your feeling to meet their goals” that the two years expect “still exist.”

Mabon Ap Gwynfor MS, spokesman for Plaid Cymru on health and care, said the monthly update were not “statistics to celebrate by any measure.”

“Of course, any improvement in terrible statistics is welcome, but we do not pretend that things are good, or anywhere, as they live should be,” he said.