12 months on from the publication of “Worried and Waiting”, a Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) report highlighting the grave state of Welsh waiting times for young people, waiting times have increased by a further 22%.
The number of children waiting over a year for an outpatient appointment also increased by 32%.
The latest NHS statistics for Wales revealed that the overall NHS treatment waiting list remain at 800,395 pathways.
Median waits for treatment had increased by 0.6 weeks to 23.6 weeks in Wales, in just one month.
Commenting, James Evans MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care said:
“These figures represent a catastrophic failure by the Welsh Labour Government and mean that more and more children are having their lives put on hold.
“The former Health Minister, now First Minister promised to eliminate the longest waits of two years or more for people of all ages in 2023 and 2024, yet they remain at over twenty thousand, with the overall waiting list for children standing at well over fifty thousand.
“Welsh Conservatives believe there is a need, greater than ever, to replace this Welsh Labour Government once and for all, so that we can fix the Welsh NHS and to get to grips with these excessive waits.”
