The initial goal to address the NHS backlog following the Covid pandemic was missed.
When there shouldn't be any, nearly 75,000 people are waiting for an outpatient appointment for a year or more.
The Welsh government expressed its disappointment with the ambitious goal. not been satisfied.
Aandamp;E wait times, handover delays, and ambulance response times have all increased from the record lows of the previous month.
For the third consecutive month, fewer people are currently on the hospital waiting list.
By the end of 2022, there should have been no one waiting longer than a year for a first appointment, according to the Welsh government's post-Covid target, but there were 74,976 people in that situation.
In the three specialties of ophthalmology, ear, nose, and throat, and trauma and orthopaedics, there were nearly 42,000 people waiting a year or more.
The Welsh government stated that after dealing with urgent cases, it would keep pushing health boards to prioritize patients who had been waiting the longest.
Missing the goal "by tens of thousands is an undeniable failure," according to Russell George, a spokesman for the Conservative health policy.
Ambulance response times improved, with 48.9% of immediately life-threatening "red" calls arriving within eight minutes in January, but they were still below the 65.0% target and worse than a year earlier.
By spending time outside of major A, ambulances caused 23,035 "lost" hours.
The number of patients who were unable to leave the hospital despite being well enough to do so decreased as well, falling by about 10% from the previous month, but there were still about 1,000 patients waiting for care or support to be arranged.
These most recent statistics include the time that nurses went on strike in December 2022 and ambulance workers went on strike in January of this year.
When we learn that the number of daily 999 calls dropped by almost 25% in January, it gives us important context.
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The number of patient pathways on hospital waiting lists decreased by 1.75% to 735,139, but this remains the sixth-highest total in history.
It is estimated that 577,400 people were on waiting lists, which is a decrease of 8,500 from the previous month. Some patients were on multiple waiting lists.
For the fourth month in a row, the number of people waiting a year or longer—just under 162,000—fell. Those waiting two years or longer—6 point 2 percent of the waiting list—fell as well.
In Wales, 22% of those on the waiting list are still on the list for more than a year, compared to less than 6% in England, where almost no one is on the list for more than two years.
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8,999 people stayed in A for at least 12 hours.
The median wait time was the shortest since April 2021 at two hours and 35 minutes.
However, statistics regarding cancer performance have declined.
In comparison to the prior month, fewer people began their first course of treatment in December, and fewer also received the all-clear.
Performance against the 62-day targets also declined to 52.9 percent, the second-lowest level ever.
According to the Welsh government, December was one of the hardest months for the NHS ever because of high Covid and flu rates, a huge demand brought on by worries about Strep A, and the impact of industrial action on activity.
"Despite the pressures, the NHS in Wales continues to make progress in both planned and emergency care.
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