Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 23 October 2018.

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Photo of Caroline Jones Caroline Jones UKIP 2:00, 23 October 2018

Leader of the house, the reason Wales has some of the worst lung cancer survival rates in Europe is due, in the main, to delays in diagnosis. Unacceptably long waits for diagnostic tests and routine downgrading of general practitioner referrals contribute to late diagnosis of lung cancer. So, leader of the house, what is your Government doing to cut diagnostic waiting times and ensure that GP referrals are not downgraded?