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Felicity

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

And it's particularly a big issue in North Wales, where the health board there has some of the worst waiting times in Wales.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

And of course, the Wales wide performance of the NHS is.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

is something which has been criticised for some time.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

Now, the Welsh Government said that they wanted to get the overall waiting lists down to 600,000 by the spring, and they also said that they wanted to eradicate two-year waits.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

Now, two-year waits are virtually eradicated already in England, I believe, but you'll know the details on that.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

But the latest provisional figures have come out for March.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

I've written them down here because I know I wouldn't be able to remember them, but

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

What they show is that there were around 666,700 people waiting.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

So the Welsh Labour government has missed that target.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

And 2,600 waiting more than two years.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

So they have failed to hit those two targets in this final round.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

set of figures really before people go to the polls.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

Although having said that, total numbers waiting for treatment now stand at their lowest since December 2021.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

So, you know, Welsh Labour say that's a sign of progress.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

The other parties say it simply isn't good enough and that they have policies that would get to grips with this issue.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

As James says, of course, the SNP and Plaid have had, you know, very warm, informal relationships with each other.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

We've had SNP speakers at Plaid Cymru conferences.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

We've also had Sinn FΓ©in speakers at Plaid Cymru conferences, party conferences in the past.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

Just on that point about what happens if we have applied government post-election, I mean, a lot of the parties are trying to make the independence issue a bigger issue than so far it appears to be in the election.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

You know, reform accused...