The recovery plan for planned care has been published and this sets out a number of challenging targets for health boards to achieve across all specialisms, including secondary gynaecological care services. The gynaecological board that has just been formed will develop plans to reach these targets. This will include a variety of actions, including e-advice, better referral and discharge pathways, introducing one-stop shops, responses to symptoms, and responding to patients' concerns.

Now, as Members are aware, I have agreed on a two-step plan to ensure that women receive the best possible care and assistance to remain healthy throughout their lives. As I have noted, the Welsh Government is developing a quality statement for women's health that will enable us to provide a strategic picture of our expectations in terms of the provision of women's healthcare services across Wales. This will describe what good provision should look like, not just in terms of reproductive health for women, but also to tackle the gender bias in our mainstream system at present. Now, this will be published this term, and we will be discussing and debating that statement, I believe in July, in the Senedd.

Secondly, the health service collaborative will lead the work of developing a 10-year plan for women's health. This will outline the steps that the service will take to meet the expectations in the quality statement. The plan will follow the same whole-life course outlined and recommended by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in their 'Better for Women' report, and the intention is to decrease inequalities in health, to improve the fairness of services and to improve the health outcomes for women in Wales. The plan will include short-term actions and long-term actions, and I will present that in the autumn. I'm eager that service users should be able to contribute significantly to the plan to ensure that the voices of women are at the heart of the plan. So, engagement will take place with stakeholders throughout the process of developing the plan, as well as the usual consultation. I'm very grateful to the Women's Health Alliance for the work that they have done to raise the profile of women's health, and I look forward to meeting and working with them as we develop the plans. I'm aware that there's a great deal to do yet, but I'm certain that the statement and the quality plan, together with the work that is in the pipeline already, will lead to far better care for women across Wales.