After the Covid pandemic, the first goal to reduce the NHS backlog was missed.
There shouldn't be nearly 75,000 people waiting more than a year for an outpatient appointment.
This ambitious target, according to the Welsh government, "disappointed.". is not satisfied.
However, compared to the record lows reached in the previous month, A&E wait times, handover delays, and ambulance response times have all improved.
For the third month in a row, fewer people are currently in hospital waiting rooms.
By the end of 2022, the Welsh government's post-Covid goal was to have no one wait more than a year for a first appointment, but as of that date, 74,976 people were still waiting.
Three specialties—ophthalmology, ear, nose, and throat, and trauma and orthopaedics—had nearly 42,000 people waiting a year or more for additional care.
After dealing with urgent cases, the Welsh government stated that it would keep pushing health boards to prioritize patients who had been waiting the longest.
Russell George, a spokesman for the Conservative Party on health policy, said missing the goal "by tens of thousands is an undeniable failure.".
In January, 48.9% of immediately life-threatening "red" calls were answered by an ambulance within eight minutes, which was an improvement over the previous month but still fell short of the 65.0% target.
Ambulances spending time outside of major A resulted in 23,035 "lost" hours.
There was a decrease in the number of patients who were unable to leave the hospital despite being well enough to do so, down about 10% from the previous month, but there were still about 1,000 patients waiting for assistance or care plans to be set up.
These most recent data include the timeframe of the nurses' December 2022 and the ambulance staff's January 2019 strikes.
When we see that daily 999 calls decreased by nearly 25% in January, it gives us important context.
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Hospital waiting lists decreased by 1.75% to a total of 735,139 patient pathways, but this is still the sixth-highest number ever recorded.
There were reportedly 577,400 people on waiting lists, a decrease of 8,500 from the previous month, with some patients being on multiple waiting lists.
For a fourth month in a row, the number of people waiting a year or more—just under 162,000—fell, as did the number of people waiting two years or more—6 point 2 percent of the waiting list.
In Wales, 22% of those on the waiting list are still on the list for more than a year. In England, where almost no one is on the list for more than two years, the percentage is less than 6%.
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While 8,999 individuals stayed in A for at least 12 hours.
Since April 2021, the median wait time has been two hours and 35 minutes.
The performance statistics for cancer, however, have declined.
In December, fewer patients began their first course of treatment than in November, and fewer patients received the all-clear.
Performance against the 62-day goals also declined to 52.9%, the second-lowest percentage ever.
According to the Welsh government, December was one of the most challenging months in NHS history due to high rates of colitis and the flu, a significant increase in demand brought on by concerns about strep a, and the effects of industrial action on activity.
"Despite the pressures, improvements are being made in both planned and emergency care in Wales' NHS.
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