What action is the Welsh Government taking to ensure that services for lymphoma patients are of a consistent quality across Wales?
The main focus of the approach set out in the Quality Statement for Cancer is improving the quality of cancer care. One important aspect of quality is tackling unwarranted variation in care pathways. The introduction of the single cancer pathway in Wales provides services with a significant opportunity to standardise care through the development of nationally agreed cancer type pathways. Nearly twenty pathways have already been published and a number are still in development, including a pathway for lymphoma. The development of national pathways requires extensive engagement with the clinical community and the development of consensus on their content. The lymphoma pathway is likely to be available early in the New Year. The published pathways can be found at: