Meetings

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.

Note: Meeting Agenda can change at short notice. Particularly where future meeting dates are indicated more than a week in advance. Please check before planning to attend a Committee Meeting that the item you are interested in has not been moved.

Meeting: 27/01/2026 - Plenary (Item 4)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times

Minutes:

The item started at 15.33

 


Meeting: 13/01/2026 - Plenary (Item 7)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Winter Pressures

Minutes:

The item started at 15.26


Meeting: 16/12/2025 - Plenary (Item 3)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Escalation Levels of NHS Organisations

Minutes:

The item started at 15.00


Meeting: 09/12/2025 - Plenary (Item 5)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: The New Emergency Ambulance Performance Framework and Ambulance Patient Handover at Hospitals

Minutes:

The item started at 15.59

 


Meeting: 25/11/2025 - Plenary (Item 6)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Improving Waiting Times - postponed

Minutes:

This item has been postponed.


Meeting: 21/10/2025 - Plenary (Item 6)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Towards a more Transparent NHS

Minutes:

The item started at 16.26


Meeting: 07/10/2025 - Plenary (Item 4)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Winter Planning in the NHS and Social Care

Minutes:

The item started at 15.15

 


Meeting: 30/09/2025 - Plenary (Item 6)

Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing: The NHS Wales App

Minutes:

The item started at 17.03


Meeting: 23/09/2025 - Plenary (Item 4)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Reforming the Dental Contract: Next Steps

Minutes:

The item started at 15.30


Meeting: 15/07/2025 - Plenary (Item 5)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Maternity Services and Escalation and Intervention Arrangements in NHS Wales

Minutes:

The item started at 16.30


Meeting: 01/07/2025 - Plenary (Item 3)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Children’s Oral Health

Minutes:

The item started at 15.03


Meeting: 10/06/2025 - Plenary (Item 6)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Ill-Health Prevention - to be issued as a written statement

Minutes:

This item was issued as a written statement

 


Meeting: 03/06/2025 - Plenary (Item 6)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: 2025-26 Waiting Times and Priorities

Minutes:

The item started at 17.10


Meeting: 13/05/2025 - Plenary (Item 6)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Update on Maternity and Neonatal Services at Swansea Bay University Health Board

Minutes:

The item started at 16.42


Meeting: 29/04/2025 - Plenary (Item 6)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Report of the Ministerial Advisory Group on NHS Wales Performance and Productivity

Minutes:

The item started at 16.54


Meeting: 18/03/2025 - Plenary (Item 4)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Dental reform

Minutes:

The item started at 15.23


Meeting: 11/03/2025 - Plenary (Item 5)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Escalation and intervention arrangements in NHS Wales

Minutes:

The item started at 16.02


Meeting: 11/03/2025 - Plenary (Item 4)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Response to the Health and Social Care Committee’s recommendation about emergency ambulance response targets

Minutes:


Meeting: 04/03/2025 - Plenary (Item 3)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Update on Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Minutes:

The item started at 14.40

 


Meeting: 04/02/2025 - Plenary (Item 4)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Programme of International NHS Recruitment

Minutes:

The item started at 15.31

 


Meeting: 21/01/2025 - Plenary (Item 5)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Access to Primary and Community Care Services

Minutes:

The item started at 16.17


Meeting: 07/01/2025 - Plenary (Item 6)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS winter pressures

Minutes:

The item started at 16.28


Meeting: 03/12/2024 - Plenary (Item 4)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: New 50-day challenge to improve hospital discharge and community care

Minutes:

The item started at 15.32


Meeting: 26/11/2024 - Plenary (Item 5)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Review of the appropriateness of emergency ambulance response measures and associated targets

Minutes:

The item started at 16.34


Meeting: 19/11/2024 - Plenary (Item 3)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Waiting times

Minutes:

The item started at 14.56

 


Meeting: 05/11/2024 - Plenary (Item 8)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations – escalation update

Minutes:

The item started at 18.00


Meeting: 24/09/2024 - Plenary (Item 6)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Winter preparedness in the NHS

Minutes:

The item started at 16.59


Meeting: 16/07/2024 - Plenary (Item 3)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: The Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill

Minutes:

The item started at 15.04


Meeting: 25/06/2024 - Plenary (Item 6)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024/25

Minutes:

The item started at 16.54

 


Meeting: 11/06/2024 - Plenary (Item 4)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Six Goals for Urgent and Emergency Care Two Years On

Minutes:

The item started at 15.11


Meeting: 21/05/2024 - Plenary (Item 6)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: National Immunisation Framework for Wales

Minutes:

The item started at 16.48


Meeting: 23/04/2024 - Plenary (Item 4)

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping

Minutes:

The item started at 15.49