<p>Oncology Provision in Mid and West Wales</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:10 pm on 20 June 2017.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:10, 20 June 2017

There will be no question of people not being offered a treatment in one part of Wales if it’s available in other parts of Wales via the new treatment fund. That’s what the fund is designed to eradicate—the postcode lottery. Implementation of the fund is going well, but it’s not as consistent as I want it to be at the moment. Instructions have been given by the Cabinet Secretary to the health boards that he expects the situation to be consistent, certainly by the end of the summer, and then we will be at the point where the postcode lottery has been completely eradicated. It’s on the way to that happening now, but the health boards have been told very clearly that this is something that the Government will see done.