Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:51 pm on 21 June 2017.
I’m happy to deal with both parts of that. I’m certainly not aware that we set the threshold in the test on anything other than the evidence base on what is the right thing to do for patients. If she wants to write to me with specific issues that have been raised by Cancer Research for either myself or the Minister to respond, we’ll happily do so. In terms of endoscopy capacity, we do know that we have a particular challenge in the south-east part of Wales, and we’ve actually made significant progress on reducing waits and improving capacity, but also improving quality at the same time, in west Wales, in mid Wales and in north Wales too. Our challenge is for south-east Wales, where most of these waits exist, in the Cardiff and Vale, Cwm Taf and Aneurin Bevan health board areas. And whilst they’ve made progress over the last year that has really been significant, there is still much more to do over the course of this year, and I expect them to make a real and significant difference again into the backlog they have, so we then have a much more sustainable system where people are seen within their target times.