Welsh Government Unveils £145m Emergency Injection to Arrest NHS Waiting List Surge
After ten months of steady progress, a sharp uptick in patients awaiting care has triggered a significant fiscal intervention. The Welsh government hopes the new funding, focused on surgical hubs and diagnostic capacity, will stabilise the health service as winter pressures loom.
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