{"id":399555,"date":"2026-01-30T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399555\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:38:09","slug":"concerns-over-long-waits-for-spinal-surgery-at-gobowen-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399555\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns over long waits for spinal surgery at Gobowen hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its 2025-26 strategic objectives, RJAH said no Welsh patients should wait more than 104 weeks for treatment, in line with NHS Wales government standards. A report at the meeting said there had been 128 breaches of this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report said: &#8220;The breaches comprise of treatment waits for spinal, arthroplasty, knee and sports injuries and foot and ankle care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Very long waits now exceed 300 weeks for complex spinal surgery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the discussion of the PTHB&#8217;s performance report from November, board member Mick Giannasi said the issues were a performance &#8220;outlier&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It actually sounds worse when you describe it as over five years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I appreciate the numbers involved are probably very small, but a wait of that length is clearly far beyond what could be considered acceptable even in the current context we&#8217;re operating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report also said the hospital remained &#8220;the most challenged English provider for long waits with a growing trend of over 104-week waiters and with all key wait bands reporting special cause concern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;RJAH continue to face challenges with regards to their capacity and ability to see all patients within the Welsh government targets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its 2025-26 strategic objectives, RJAH said no Welsh patients should wait more than 104 weeks for treatment,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-399555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}