First Minister, radium-223 is a vital tool in fighting stage 4 prostate cancer. It is National Institute for Health and Care Excellence approved and has been implemented, I think via the new treatment fund, so far in north Wales. However, there is real drag here in the south. Neither Velindre hospital nor Singleton are yet ready to offer this. It is a nuclear medicine so it does require particular set-ups. However, I am told that when and if Velindre are able to offer it, it will then be available to the people in south-east Wales but not able to take on board patients who will be coming up from mid and west Wales. Of course, I’m deeply concerned about that, because a significant number of my constituents also suffer from prostate cancer. At the moment, everyone in south Wales has to go to Bristol to have this treatment—that doesn’t save a life, but it prolongs a life, and if it’s your life I’m sure that’s beyond important.

Could you please, First Minister, review this? Could you look at how north Wales have managed to implement this very vital strand of medicine, why it’s not happening in south Wales, what we can do to make sure that Velindre and/or Singleton get the opportunity to offer it, and that when it is here in south Wales it is offered equitably to every single constituent in Wales, no matter where they live?