HYWEL Dda Health Board will look to cut waiting lists after the Welsh Government announced it was providing an additional £30 million to help address lists.

Health secretary Vaughan Gething said the extra funding would go to health boards across Wales to ease pressure on waiting lists to reduce the time patients are waiting for treatment, diagnostics and therapy.

Hywel Dda, as well as other health boards, have submitted plans to the Welsh Government to show how they are going to reduce waiting lists by March 2019 with the amount of funding they receive dependent on performance in terms of cutting waiting lists.

Mr Gething said: “This extra funding is available to health boards to help them reduce waiting times in key pressure areas.

“I recently announced our long term vision for the NHS and Social Care, A Healthier Wales, backed by £100m to transform the way the service is delivered in the future.

“But in the short to medium term we also need to find new ways to reduce waiting times for patients who have already waited beyond our targets.

“Health boards will need to meet the targets they set out in order to receive the full funding.

“I expect to see significant improvements on waiting times as we did in the first two years of this fund.”

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