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Health Secretary Jeremy Miles has today announced £120m to fund a plan to eliminate long waits and reduce the size of the waiting list this year.

Health Secretary Jeremy Miles today announced a £120m package to fund Wales’ ambitious plans to continue cutting waiting times and the waiting list this year.

Wales will become a Marmot Nation as part of the Welsh Government’s ongoing work to tackle health inequalities.

Long waits for treatments in Wales have fallen by two-thirds in the last four months.

A free and confidential online HIV testing service will be expanded with new funding to support measures to eliminate new transmissions.

Two extra services to treat common conditions without a prescription from the pharmacy will be available from most community pharmacies across Wales.

A series of changes, recommended by a group of independent experts in a milestone report designed to strengthen the NHS, are being taken forward by the Welsh Government.

As Wales marks 18 years as the first UK nation to abolish prescription charges, forty-four-year-old Ryan Perrot who has severe asthma shares how the policy helped change his life.   

Hospices will receive additional funding to help them continue to provide vital palliative and end-of-life care.

A new deal between the NHS and the public is at the heart of a plan to continue to drive down the longest waiting times this year.

New rules about how and where foods high in fat, salt and sugar can be promoted and displayed in larger shops and online have been passed by the Senedd.