The Institute for Fiscal Studies said last month, external<\/a> that NHS Wales is performing worse than pre-pandemic and “almost” every recovery target has been missed – but there have been recent improvements in elective waiting times.<\/p>\n“Performance in the Welsh NHS remains worse than pre-pandemic and recovery has taken far longer than expected,” it said in its report on public spending and performance in Wales.<\/p>\n
“Almost every recovery target has been missed, and waiting times for many services remain far higher than they were pre-pandemic. <\/p>\n
“There has been some recent improvement in elective waiting times, but concerningly A&E waiting times have worsened. <\/p>\n
“Other nations in the UK have also faced similar challenges, but comparable waiting times remain higher in Wales than in England or Scotland.”<\/p>\n
The institute added: “There are also worrying signs that hospital productivity may have fallen, given large increases in staffing and funding that have not fully translated into higher activity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Missing targets?’published at 12:03 BST 9 April 12:03 BST 9 April Tom Edgington, BBC Verify Rhun ap Iorwerth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-581442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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‘Missing targets?’published at 12:03 BST 9 April<\/p>\n