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a key demand is for the Welsh government and the health board to withdraw the South Wales Programme and support the permanent retention of A&E at the Royal Glam

Bosses at Cwm Taf health board have announced the closure of the A&E department at Royal Glamorgan hospital even as an A&E crisis is raging in the NHS. Emergency cases in Rhondda Cynon Taff (RCT) face being transported on a long journey to Merthyr or Cardiff by an already overstretched ambulance service. People in the Rhondda face especially long journeys. ...

By Alex Wedlake   Just before the Christmas the BBC issued a stark warning for the people of Wales. The NHS winter crisis had begun. In 2019 the Welsh Ambulance service has failed to meet its response time targets despite monumental number fudging that oversaw the degrading of stroke call outs from Red to Amber; this is in spite of ...

Join the march to save Sam Davies ward! Saturday 5 October Barry Hospital, Colcott Road 11.00 am By a Cardiff and Vale nurse “That was challenging and uncomfortable”: Cardiff and Vale Health Board chief executive Len Richards’ closing remark at a public engagement meeting over NHS cuts in Barry. After an hour’s presentation from the health board, which one attendee ...

By Ross Saunders Unison members in Barry Hospital have launched a campaign to save the Sam Davies ward from closure. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board plans to close the acute rehabilitation ward as part of its latest round of cuts, which it has dressed up as a reorganisation of services for older people. Ward East 2 in Llandough Hospital ...

By Joe Fathallah A report from Heathcare Inspectorate Wales has exposed the terrible conditions faced by patients and staff at the Accident & Emergency of Wales’s biggest hospital, the University Hospital of Wales (UHW), following an inspection on 25th-27th March. Staff were reduced to tears due to the lack of time and resources available to properly care for patients. Some ...

By a Cardiff and Vale nurse Two Welsh health boards have announced plans to privatise their hospital pharmacies. Betsi Cadwaladr and Cardiff and Vale health boards say they cannot afford to employ sufficient dispensers to maintain an adequate service. They predict that outsourcing outpatient services to a private, community pharmacy will improve inpatient pharmacy services by reducing workload. This is ...

By a Welsh NHS nurse Following a damning report on maternity deaths at Cwm Taf Health Board, maternity services have been put in to special measures. Between January 2016 and September 2018, there were around 25 serious incidents including eight still births and five neonatal deaths at the Royal Glamorgan hospital, Llantrisant and Prince Charles hospital, Merthyr Tydfil. Parents report ...

By Beth Webster, nurse, Cardiff West Socialist Party The NHS crisis has reached horrifying new levels. Over 300 NHS nurses have died by suicide in seven years. In 2014, one nurse a week took their own lives. This is a tragic reflection of how overworked and desperate staff have become in a health service decimated by Tory austerity. The risk ...

By a member of Pembrokeshire Socialist Party After a series of “consultation and engagement” events, Hywel Dda University health board has recently announced its plans to transform the way in which people in Carmarthenshire , Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion will receive healthcare provision in the future and its twenty year “vision” to achieve this and to “repurpose” healthcare in West Wales. ...