3 September 2019 - With great power comes great responsibility. But when the Government sets up an agency with great responsibilities, real power needs to come with it.

In the case of the new cancer control agency, this would mean the resources and corrective capacities to hold district health boards, the Health Ministry, and Government itself to account. None of which is a given.

The Government's 10-year cancer action plan announced at the weekend includes, by the start of December, the much-anticipated creation of an agency that will join four existing cancer control networks into what's intended to be a more cohesive and incisive entity.

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