In May, I called on the Welsh Government to develop a bespoke women's health strategy for Wales. Such a strategy should focus on closing the gender gaps in healthcare, providing consistent investment, support and treatment into women's health. But, today's debate again exemplifies that there's so much work to be done still. Even before the COVID pandemic, which at times can feel is being blamed for everything, Wales was experiencing significant gaps in the diagnostic and cancer workforce, in imaging, in endoscopy, pathology, non-surgical oncology. The NHS has relied, has it not, on the goodwill of its workforce to keep services running.

In July this year, figures told us that just 34 per cent of gynaecological cancers met the suspected cancer pathway target of starting treatment within 62 days from the point of suspected cancer in Wales. This falls far behind the target of 75 per cent of people starting treatment within 62 days.

In 2017, the then Assembly's Petitions Committee produced a report calling for a public-facing ovarian cancer awareness campaign in Wales. To date, there has been no specific awareness campaign on ovarian cancer, despite low levels of awareness of the symptoms of ovarian cancer in Wales. Nearly 400 women in Wales are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year. Well over half of them will die of ovarian cancer in Wales each year. If there's no public awareness campaign, if there's no general awareness of ovarian cancer, including the common symptoms, when people should seek medical advice, then those who have the cancer go undetected and untreated, and early detection, as I say, is critical.

Target Ovarian Cancer wants to shorten the diagnostic pathway. Now, currently, individual tests are carried out separately, leaving women waiting longer for a diagnosis. We want to see the relevant tests carried out at the same time, allowing women to be diagnosed faster.