NHS waiting lists in Wales are spiralling out of control says South Pembrokeshire AM Angela Burns.
The Welsh Assembly Government announced last week that it was going to raid its reserves to try to get waiting lists down to six-and-a-half-months between referral and treatment.
But Mrs. Burns says that a similar move by the Government last year has so far failed to make a difference.
"I have heard from one Pembrokeshire lady who has gone into Morriston Hospital for major surgery three times and has had it cancelled every time - twice when she was actually gowned and waiting outside the operating theatre.
"The Labour-Plaid government raided the reserves of well over £60 million last year and plans to do the same this year and next to try to solve this problem.
"But the NHS has to either pay overtime or pay the private sector to get these operations carried out to clear the backlog.
"If this money went directly into frontline services in the first place we would have waiting times that are more like those of English patients. Having had to wait months for an operation myself this year I can really understand the stress that being cancelled again and again has on people."