<p>Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:38 pm on 15 June 2016.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 2:38, 15 June 2016

I thank the Member for the question and for highlighting an area where we’ve made real progress over the last calendar year. Because at the high point that we reached in summer last year, we had a real challenge in understanding what could and should take place to reduce the diagnostic waiting times. We’re now in a much better place and MRI is a good example: there are a number of health boards—at least two—where it’s practically at zero, so no people wait above the target time, but we do have a very real challenge in particular in the south-east of Wales, where far too many people still wait too long. So, I fully expect that it’s a message that the service understands perfectly well. The progress we made, in particular in the last six months of the last year, will continue into this year, and I’m looking forward to the figures in the first quarter, and in particular in the second quarter of this year, to understand whether that ambition within the service is being made real, because that is certainly what I expect to see.