<p>Services for Cancer Patients</p>

Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:04 pm on 19 July 2017.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 3:04, 19 July 2017

Well, in answer to the question from the UKIP spokesperson, I again indicated that, from 2013, 66 per cent of cancer patients had a key worker, and, okay, that’s risen to 86 per cent in the most recent survey. So, significant progress and yet more to do, as I previously indicated. Currently, the key worker information’s held within the cancer information system, otherwise known as Canisc. And we do know that needs to be replaced, and so it should then make it easier to understand a range of these areas. Rather than asking health boards to do it manually or to invent a different system to collect the information on key workers, I’m interested in getting a proper approach to collect and allow us to interrogate those data in a meaningful way, not just about key workers, but on a number of other areas. So, that work is being undertaken by the Wales cancer network and by officials across the Government. So, this is an area where I think we can be proud of the progress we’ve made, but as I say, and I regularly say, we still recognise there is more for us to do.