Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:42 pm on 21 June 2016.
First Minister, young children between nought and 14 are far more likely—or, in fact, are twice as likely—to be diagnosed through emergency presentation for cancer. I would like you to consider the children’s charity CLIC Sargent and their call that the refreshed Wales cancer delivery plan, which is intended for later this year, should improve initial and ongoing training in children and young people’s health for primary care professionals, and should report on the level of access that GP practices have to paediatric and young people’s health expertise, to address just this issue. To be between nought and 14 years old and not find out that you have cancer until you have been rushed into accident and emergency is not really an acceptable way forward. I think your Government needs to look to see how it can address that situation.