Wales's health minister Eluned Morgan hits back at Steve Barclay's offer to treat patients in England

showed 5% of patients on waiting lists in England had been waiting more than a year at the end of June.'Will cancer targets be scrapped?'

"I think it's a cheap political stunt for the summer and it seems very odd for a man who's got 7.5 million people waiting on lists in England to be offering this kind of service beyond his borders," Baroness Morgan said."Where on earth he'd find the capacity from I don't know, but if the offer's free then I certainly would want to take it up but my guess is this is just a cheap political stunt.

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