Cancer and diagnostics

James EvansConservative

22 January 2025, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services

Diolch, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I move the motion tabled in the name of my colleague, Paul Davies. Cancer doesn't wait, and neither should we. Yet, for far too long, Wales has failed to deliver timely, life-saving cancer care that our constituents expect and deserve. The Audit Wales report…

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Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer

22 January 2025, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services

Item 6 today is the Welsh Conservatives' debate on cancer services. And I call on James Evans to move the motion.

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Jeremy MilesLabour

21 January 2025, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Access to Primary and Community Care Services

…we possibly can, is the provision of more and more services in the primary care setting, whether that's diagnostics, but in the way that he said also, minor surgical interventions and a range of others. Some of them I touched on today, but he makes a point, I think, about a larger volume of activity…

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Gareth DaviesConservative

21 January 2025, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

…to refer women with significant risk factors to a hospital vascular unit for imaging rather than the screening programme. One of my constituents is campaigning to include women with risk factors in routine AAA screening, and I'd be interested to know if the Welsh Government has investigated whether…

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Russell GeorgeConservative

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Papers to note

…Services University NHS Trust and the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill; correspondence from Tenovus Cancer Care regarding the proposed increase in employer NI contributions; and requests from Senedd Members for committee inquiries, which I know we'll discuss at a later date when we're discussing…

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Mabon ap GwynforPlaid

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26

…to hear, but of course, part of the capital investment goes to the estate, but another goes to diagnostic equipment. The area that we're most behind with is the digitalisation, and that digital element in order to ensure that every part of the health board speaks to each other. It was very…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26

…outlined some of them. On the other hand, you do have a new unit in Llandudno, you have a new Velindre cancer centre, you have a radiotherapy centre in Nevill Hall. So, there are very positive developments in the system too. So, the challenge for us is to ensure that we strike that balance between…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26

…And then, as I said broadly earlier, there is a fund for those more transformative things: a fund for diagnostics, for digital projects, for investments that are going to increase productivity in the system in general. So, some of those are in terms of reconfigurations in hospitals, and some of them…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26

…that we are targeting in terms of the longest waits in our most recent initiatives—so, ophthalmology, diagnostics, orthopaedics. So, we've constructed the focus of our investment very much on removing the sense of pressure that some people may feel to take the route that you said.

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Jeremy MilesLabour

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26

…itself by doing more activity in the evening and on weekends. We will all have heard of people having MRI scans in the evening, and all those positive things that we want to see. And then, in addition to that, to the activity in the public NHS, there are about 22,000 extra treatments that we are…

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James EvansConservative

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26

I'm interested in that money. Everybody talks about the waiting times, don't they, in orthopaedic care and also for cancers; they’re the big areas. But there are also other areas I'd touch on—fertility, for example. There are long waits on fertility treatment. And I'm just interested, Cabinet…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26

…going back up because more people were presenting with urgent needs, more people were presenting for cancer treatment, for example, which as you know is a challenging set of services that we provide. So, that's the rationale for the additional funding going in, and it absolutely has been targeted to…

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