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

Support the NHS to reduce the longest waits for planned treatment, the new funding will provide more outpatient appointments, more diagnostic tests and more treatments, including more than 20,000 cataract operations.

The new Planned Care Recovery plan sets out the Welsh Government’s ambition to reduce the overall size of the waiting list by 200,000, eliminate all two-year waits and reduce diagnostic wait times to under 8 weeks by March 2026.

In addition, all health boards will be expected to make changes to how they provide services to increase productivity and efficiency and to reduce variation.