Cancer Care in Powys
In Powys many patients use both Shrewsbury and Hereford Hospitals. There is currently a review of cancer services in the three counties – Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, with a possibility of siting cancer care treatment at either Worcester, Cheltenham or Hereford. This will have considerable implications for patients in the area I represent, and I have been lobbying hard to ensure that cancer care is retained at Hereford Hospital.
I raised it in the Chamber this week with Rhodri Morgan in what became a very heated exchange. It seemed obvious to me that he had little or no idea of the position, and had he said that undertaken to offer a full response later I would have understood and accepted that. Sadly he did not opt to do this.
The next day I raised the matter with the Health Minister who had received my correspondence, and was, as always, accommodating and adopted an approach of trying to ensure that some sensible outcome could be reached.
I remain hopeful that this will happen, and I have been in touch with politicians in England to put the case for Powys and Wales.
