Cancer Survival Rates

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:16 pm on 18 September 2018.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:16, 18 September 2018

(Translated)

No, I don’t accept that there’s a lack of consistency. I know that the scanners are available—there’s one in Cardiff and there’s one in Wrexham. We know that the system is not subject to the amount of capacity available. So, there is capacity in the system. It’s very difficult, of course, to know the reason, and why the individual was given that response, but there is no evidence that people in north Wales, for example, are in a worse position than those in south Wales. But without knowing all the details, of course, it’s very difficult to talk more about it.