Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:39 pm on 4 October 2017.
Diolch, Llywydd. Cabinet Secretary, October is breast cancer awareness month and to mark the occasion Breast Cancer Now have published a new report looking at the breast cancer patient pathway, and makes recommendations to improve patient outcomes. We’re now making progress in improving breast cancer survival rates. Both one-year and five-year survival rates have increased by 1.7 per cent over the last decade. We are getting better at detecting breast cancer, but we are not always treating the cancer early enough. Referral-to-treatment cancer targets for both urgent and non-urgent routes have not been met in the last 12 months. Breast Cancer Now are calling for you to closely monitor performance against waiting times and to take remedial action. Cabinet Secretary, will you accept this recommendation and outline the steps that you are taking to meet referral-to-treatment targets?