Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:27 pm on 17 May 2017.
Well, I recognise that he is the local Member for Aberavon. Look, there’s been real progress made in every single health board. Again, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board have made real and significant progress in this area. The diagnostic hub to be based at Royal Glamorgan is part of the south Wales programme: the development of a more joined-up service, understanding where those tests could and should take place, as we recognise that whether it’s in unscheduled care or scheduled care, having diagnostic certainty is hugely important to then make proper treatment decisions. I’ll decline from indicating where I’m about to locate, or advance the case for a diagnostic hub to be based in anyone else’s particularly local hospital, but I expect the whole service—the planned for, the demand that we know exists now, that we know will exist in the future—to have a system that is properly geared up to meet those demands that are utterly predictable. We do though know that will require some reform in the way we organise our service. There’ll need to be a properly mature conversation about that in the future. Obviously, I hope that—[Inaudible.]—will help to advance their cause.