Cancer and diagnostics

Jeremy MilesLabour

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26

…you suggest. Preventative programmes are relevant to more than one disease. So, obesity is relevant to cancer, but also to diabetes and a lot of other conditions. So, it's not sensible to break down preventative work per disease. There are broader issues at play. There are a variety of things in the…

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Mabon ap GwynforPlaid

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26

…had cut the funding for the Government's preventative health programmes. The Audit Wales report on cancer this week referred to that criticism of cutting preventative programmes. So, where do preventative programmes lie in your priorities, and can we expect to see an increase in the budget…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26

…I reached was to say, 'Well, I think we need to be putting as much of that additional funding into diagnostic equipment,' for example, and so the case then isn't necessarily a business case for a particular piece of kit. It's a, 'Let's create a fund that we can then allocate during the course of the…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

16 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26

…we have modern equipment for the digital programme that we have, then there is funding for additional diagnostic equipment, which will have a bearing on increasing our productivity. There are specific capital projects in there that are designed to improve productivity. There is an additional fund of…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

15 January 2025, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times

…this year. We're supporting, I think, a vision for the future of the NHS, with regional plans for a diagnostic and surgical hub in Llantrisant, but it's not just new buildings or new legislation that will transform care. Changing pathways, how care is provided, is more fundamental. At the moment—and…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

15 January 2025, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times

…years, as compared to almost 10 per cent when the figures were at their peak. The long waiting time for diagnostic tests have reduced by 35 per cent. Also, the waiting time on average between referral and treatment has reduced from 29 weeks to a little under 23 weeks. The health service is making…

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Buffy WilliamsLabour

15 January 2025, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times

…as possible in her final days. There's also the Snowdrop Breast Centre, a facility dedicated to breast cancer care, offering everything from diagnosis to follow-up appointments under one roof. This joined-up care means patients are seen far sooner, and their treatment plans can be more effectively…

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Gareth DaviesConservative

15 January 2025, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times

…going to provide something tangible? Will they finally agree to expand the number of surgical hubs and diagnostic centres, which the Welsh Conservatives have been calling for for years? And are you going to increase the number of available beds in the Welsh NHS by finally fixing the social care…

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

15 January 2025, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times

…million to tackle the longest waiting lists. This is providing more evening and weekend clinics, more diagnostic tests, and more operations between October 2024 and March 2025, going forward. We're seeing progress on this issue. Two-year waits have fallen by two thirds since their peak in the COVID…

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James EvansConservative

15 January 2025, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times

…to tell you what we’re for. We're for establishing centres of excellence, more surgical hubs and rapid diagnostic centres to reduce waiting times, expanding hospital bed capacity to ease overcrowding. Under this Labour Government we've lost 4,227 beds from our hospitals, and that can't continue. We…

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Tom GiffardConservative

15 January 2025, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: New UK Government's first six months

…vanity projects. And these hikes hit not only our businesses, they hit our charities too. Tenovus Cancer Care's called the rise devastating, warning they'll pay an extra £0.25 million per year towards the increased NI contributions. That's a huge sum, which otherwise would have gone towards vital…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

15 January 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

…services everywhere, by the way, but it’s certainly one that I would recognise here. So, in terms of cancer data specifically, which is what his question was about, we have, actually, improved the publicly available data, and we publish on a monthly basis about 18 pages of cancer treatment…

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