Cancer care

During 2023-24 we developed a cancer care road map for the coming five year. The plan sets out a range of actions to develop a more resilient service for the people of North Wales, enabling us to maintain referral to diagnosis waiting times. The activities will also lead to more care being delivered in North Wales, resulting in less long journeys for individuals with cancer.

This work will build upon comparatively good historic cancer referral to diagnosis waits and improving outcomes by addressing those areas of cancer care that remain challenging across primary and secondary care and in cancer diagnostics.

The recruitment and retention of specialist staff has presented difficulties in recent years, but there have been recent improvements and it is a key priority to now embed this.