Commenting following his exchange with Labour’s Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in Wales on Labour’s lack of a plan to deal with the longest NHS waits in the UK, Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Social Care, Dr Altaf Hussain MS said:
“The acutely long waits that patients have to endure, in pain, for NHS treatment in Labour-run Wales is shameful.
“Labour-run Wales has the longest NHS waits in the whole UK and they’ve just hit a new record, yet Labour’s Health Minister boasts that patients only have to wait 22 weeks on average for treatment, nearly 60% longer than in Conservative-run England.
“Labour ministers may be proud of this record, but the Welsh Conservatives want better for Wales and would finally cut waiting lists by fully funding our NHS.”
