The elective care waiting list has nearly doubled since 2013.
In 2013, it was just under 3,000 people.Our analysis also finds that between 2013 and 2023:The elective care waiting list nearly doubled in size, andWe reached our findings by calculating an average of official monthly figures for each year between 2013 and 2023. Where we don’t yet have data for the entirety of 2023 on some measures, this has been adjusted for in the calculation.
Labour has been in charge of the Welsh government – and therefore Wales’ NHS – since the first devolved elections in 1999. Labour’s critics, including the Conservative government in Westminster, often point to this fact when discussing the huge growth in Welsh NHS waiting lists.
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