NHS Wales ready lists are reaching document ranges
The most recent Welsh NHS estimates revealed nearly 596,000 particular person sufferers on ready lists in October 2023, the very best ever determine.
Whole ready instances within the Welsh NHS elevated for the eighth month in a row in October to simply beneath 764,500 affected person journeys, in comparison with simply over 761,100 in September.
Of the overall journeys, nearly 134,500 waited longer than a yr.
The healthcare restoration plan aimed to abolish two-year ready instances in most specialties by March this yr. Nonetheless, this purpose was not achieved: nearly 25,700 are nonetheless ready greater than two years.
In one other document, the variety of sufferers ready in October rose to simply over 120,800 for diagnostic providers, whereas the variety of sufferers rose to simply over 70,600 for therapies.
The median ready time to begin therapy in October remained the identical as final month at 19.9 weeks.
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A complete of 16,535 affected person pathways have been opened in October after suspected most cancers, a rise of three.7% on the earlier month.
As well as, 14,889 pathways have been closed after sufferers have been notified that they have been cancer-free. This represents a rise of 6.4% in comparison with the earlier month.
In the meantime, 4,669 crimson calls to the ambulance service have been recorded in November, with 49.5% of calls receiving emergency help inside eight minutes, which was up 2.3 proportion factors in comparison with October.
Welsh Secretary for Well being and Social Providers Eluned Morgan stated: “I’ve beforehand instructed well being boards to make sure that 97 per cent of these ready by the top of December 2023 might be ready lower than 104 weeks.
“In October we have been very near this (96.6 p.c), whereas 4 well being boards had already achieved that purpose.
“Over the previous three years we’ve got decreased the typical ready time for sufferers receiving deliberate care by a 3rd, with the typical ready time now secure at roughly twenty weeks.
“The demand for emergency care providers stays important, with the ambulance service now coping with round 80 per cent extra crimson calls day by day than earlier than the pandemic.
“The common variety of every day crimson calls in November was the third highest on document. Regardless of this, 75 p.c of those calls have been responded to inside 13 minutes.
“And we noticed a rise from final month within the variety of crimson calls answered inside the eight-minute goal.”
