The NHS

13 commitments in the Welsh Government's Programme for Government 2026 to 2030 fall under this brief, in the Programme's own words. Under each is how often it has been raised in the Seventh Senedd.

Source: Welsh Government, Programme for government 2026 to 2030: New ambition for Wales, first published on 10 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Mentions are found by matching the names of plans, bodies and schemes; a mention says nothing about progress.

No Plenary statements or debates on this brief in the Seventh Senedd yet.

No votes in the Seventh Senedd have been tagged with this.

Votes are tagged from their own titles and the agenda item they were held under.

• 74% of Welsh adults said the NHS would be very important to their vote.

Ipsos asked 747 Welsh adults aged 16+ between 2 April 2026 and 8 April 2026, before the 2026 Senedd election. People could choose as many issues as they liked. More on public opinion.

6 written questions to the Welsh Government on this brief in the Seventh Senedd, 5 answered so far. The latest:

1. Natasha AsgharConservative20 October 2026

   What action is the Welsh Government taking to ensure that patients accessing cross-border specialist care and support for chronic and resistant UTIs will have adequate integration and contact between English and Welsh NHS services, as currently there is no coordination with GP care in Wales?

   To the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care. Awaiting an answer

2. Darren MillarConservative21 September 2026

   Are Health Education and Improvement Wales, Public Health Wales, Health and Care Research Wales and Digital Health and Care Wales included in Welsh Government plans to require health boards to increase the proportion of their budgets devoted to primary care by 0.5% each year from 2027-28?

   To the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care. Answered 1 October 2026

3. Sam RowlandsConservative14 September 2026

   Will the Cabinet Minister provide an update as to when OpenEyes will be fully rolled out in all health boards for primary care optometry practices?

   To the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care. Answered 21 September 2026

4. Cai Parry-JonesReform11 September 2026

   What action is the Welsh Government taking to improve outcomes for women with ovarian cancer, including earlier diagnosis, improved awareness of symptoms and GP support, and equitable access to specialist treatment and clinical trials?

   To the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care. Answered 21 September 2026

5. Joshua KimReform2 September 2026

   What assessment has the Cabinet Minister made of the number and proportion of GP practices in each health board area that are formally compliant with the national access standards but still require patients seeking same-day appointments to contact the practice at or around 8am?

   To the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care. Answered 10 September 2026

All 6 written questions on this brief

4 petitions to the Senedd on this brief, open ones first, then by signatures:

1. Halt any loss of beds, facilities and Community Hospital closures in Powys review of rural healthcare

   Open

   10,403 signatures

2. Reform the ASD/ADHD pathway with joint GP and school responsibility and mandatory neurodiversity training.

   Open

   561 signatures

3. Enable NHS Wales to Partner with Approved Digital Providers to Improve Access to Pharmacy Services.

   Open

   75 signatures

4. Backdate council tax discounts for dementia to the date of GP certification

   Open

   36 signatures

No committee sessions on this brief in the Seventh Senedd yet.

62 contributions in the Seventh Senedd, newest first.

1. Rhun ap IorwerthPlaid

   6 October 2026, Plenary

   Questions to the First Minister

   The lack of accessibility to dentists is something that deeply worries me. I lost my NHS dentist a long time ago, as many of us here have, I know. What we're in the process of doing now is reviewing the contract. We need to make sure that we have a system that works for the patient and for the…

   Tagged for: “dentists”, “dentist”, “dental”, “dentistry”Official Record

2. Laura Anne JonesReform

   6 October 2026, Plenary

   Questions to the First Minister

   First Minister, I'm sure you'll agree with me that when it comes to dentistry, it's important to drill into the data. Recent data shows that only 40 per cent of people were treated under an NHS dentist, a 40 per cent drop since 2020. It is very difficult for anybody now to access NHS dental…

   Tagged for: “dentistry”, “dentist”, “dental”, “dentists”Official Record

3. Matthew JonesPlaid

   6 October 2026, Plenary

   Questions to the First Minister

   …issues found in the Welsh index of multiple deprivation statistics include access to pharmacies, GPs, local shops and childcare. These services are often twice as hard to reach in rural areas as the national average. The challenges are hard to tackle, but there are communities working to do this.…

   Tagged for: “GPs”Official Record

4. Dr Clara Day

   1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

   Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 3: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Powys Teaching Health Board

   …intend that to be the case at all. What I was talking about a little bit there was the complexity of general practice backwards and forwards across the border, which is more in the Powys area than it is up with us, and also because, to be honest, Pete is much more experienced in some of these areas…

   Tagged for: “general practice”Official Record

5. Dr Clara Day

   1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

   Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 3: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Powys Teaching Health Board

   …between organisations in the NHS to be able to provide seamless care, but even at the moment—. So, general practice are the primary data controllers of their own data, and that's not necessarily shared across into secondary care at the moment for us to be able to see the full data pathway. So, if I…

   Tagged for: “general practice”Official Record

6. Dr Clara Day

   1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

   Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 3: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Powys Teaching Health Board

   …practice that you would—. So, if you'd had care in the north-west, you'd be writing both to the GP and to the secondary care across in north Wales, if felt to be relevant, so that you've got those kinds of elements through. And a lot of the English trusts will write directly to the patients as well…

   Tagged for: “GP”, “general practice”Official Record

7. Dr Clara Day

   1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

   Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 3: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Powys Teaching Health Board

   …instance, of a large English hospital with a good digital system, things would go digitally across to general practice. At the moment, it would resort to the writing of letters, as it does in a lot of other areas—sometimes they're going by e-mail, but still fundamentally being letters—and that will…

   Tagged for: “general practice”Official Record

8. Claire ArchibaldReform

   1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

   Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 3: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Powys Teaching Health Board

   …would you ensure that the changes to the medication or treatment made in England reach the patient's GP and community care team when they return?

   Tagged for: “GP”Official Record

9. Dr Clara Day

   1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

   Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 3: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Powys Teaching Health Board

   …for the people who live very close to the border and overlap constantly between England and Wales for primary care, and those are fairly well established, and I'll perhaps leave Pete to talk more about the general practice side of the elements. For us in Betsi Cadwaladr, we are very reliant on…

   Tagged for: “primary care”, “general practice”Official Record

10. Geoff Ryall-Harvey

    1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

    Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 2: Llais

    …done. I'm sure Katie, our colleague in Powys, could tell us more, but down that marches area, where GP practices are few and far between, it just may be that your nearest one is in Wales. But we will find that out, and I'll get back to you. I'll go through the Chair.

    Tagged for: “GP practices”, “GP”Official Record

11. Nigel WilliamsReform

    1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

    Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 2: Llais

    I was just interested in the information about English patients being registered with primary care practices. Do we know what the cost of that is to the Welsh NHS and how many patients, in actual figures? You don't have to tell me now.

    Tagged for: “primary care”Official Record

12. Angela Mutlow

    1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

    Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 2: Llais

    …each other, that will affect English residents who are accessing Welsh services as well, whether that's primary care or secondary care, and that, again, leads to patient safety concerns.

    Tagged for: “primary care”Official Record

13. Geoff Ryall-Harvey

    1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

    Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 2: Llais

    …at a low price, there are many of those services, those separately commissioned services. In terms of primary care, right across England and Wales, there are more English patients registered with Welsh GPs than the other way around. That's principally because of prescription charges.

    Tagged for: “primary care”, “GPs”Official Record

14. Ben Eaton

    1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

    Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 2: Llais

    …they had the NHS Wales app and the NHS England app. They lived in Wales, were registered with a Welsh GP, and couldn't access the NHS England information because of that. They had the NHS England app but couldn't register because they were registered in Wales. Eventually, this confusion led to them…

    Tagged for: “GP”Official Record

15. Angela Mutlow

    1 October 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

    Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 2: Llais

    …really clear. They need to know who's responsible for their care. Patients can very often have a Welsh GP and then they're seen across the border by their clinician. So that information needs to be really clear. And for clinicians and providers, they need to know who's responsible, who's…

    Tagged for: “GP”Official Record

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