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Okay. I'll bring Dr Aarti in in a second, but just to give Richard an advanced question as well—you can consider this—I'm trying to understand, if the Minister was here, what would be her response. What's the Welsh Government's response to why it takes nine…
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Why is that?
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So, why is that? Is that just because the funding's not available? But the funding was available in other parts of the UK.
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Okay. This is an issue that we'll explore further in other sessions, no doubt, and with the Minister. And I suppose there's an issue around the provision of some new treatments that have taken longer to introduce in Wales, compared to some other parts of the…
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And just summarising what you're saying: it's not one issue, it's several issues, as you've identified, and Sarah's nodding, and Richard's nodding as well to that. Sarah, did you want to come in at all on this?
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I suppose, as I perhaps bring in the other witnesses as well on this question: what are the priority areas? Is it in terms of infrastructure or service development? What is needed to overcome the performance, for the reasons outlined by Richard?
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Thank you, Dr Aarti. If I can come on to another subject area, cancer waiting times in Wales are currently the worst-performing that they ever have been, particularly, I suppose, for gynae cancers, so why is this? Richard, and I'll come to you then, Dr Aarti.
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Jack, I think Richard wanted to come in on this.
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So, surely, it's not that hard to—. We've had this problem before.
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Do the individual health boards know?
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Why don't we know? Why don't we know?
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Okay, that's interesting. Thank you, Richard. Jack Sargeant.
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Thank you, Sarah. Richard, you posed the question of why Wales hasn't been able to do the same. What's your analysis and explanation, if you have one?
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Thank you.
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Dr Aarti.
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Sarah, did you want to come in? Sarah.
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Sarah, I can see that Dr Aarti wants to come in as well.
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Richard.
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That's absolutely fine, Richard.
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Does that help, Richard?
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So, I'm just checking, Sarah: just for Richard's purpose, I think we're referring to the RCOG written report in terms of women's health hubs. Is that right, Sarah?
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Right, okay.
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Sarah or Dr Aarti, do you want to come in on this point?
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Okay. Well, I'll bring in Sarah and Dr Aarti and then perhaps we can clarify what we're referring to, to bring Richard back in.
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Thank you, Richard. Sarah Murphy.
