Cancer targets are being ‘merged’ instead of scrapped, a health minister insisted today.
Under plans yet to be formally announced, the NHS will adopt just three targets on treating and diagnosing patients quicker. Currently, trusts are assessed against 10 different measures.
Will Quince, who sits underneath Health Secretary Steve Barclay, argued that it was the ‘right thing to do’.
But he also acknowledged it was ‘something that the NHS in Wales did back in 2018’.
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