Tag Archives: Royal Glamorgan

A mass campaign by working class people in RCT has forced the Welsh government into a humiliating retreat

By Dani Smith Jamie Jenkins, former head of health analysis at the Office for National Statistics, has this week highlighted stark inequalities in Covid-19 deaths in Wales. The ONS analysis shows 44.6 Covid-19 deaths for every 100,000 people in the poorest 20% of communities in Wales whereas in the wealthiest 20% of communities it was 23.3 deaths per 100,00 people, ...

By Ross Saunders Boris Johnson’s response to the new coronavirus epidemic has been one of the most inept of all the leaders of the capitalist world. That the Welsh government, which could have taken a sharply contrasting independent line, instead followed in his footsteps as he lost his balance, makes a farce out of a tragedy. Wales should immediately and ...

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. ...

Health campaigners call for a united campaign against the downgrading of services By Dave Reid People in Rhondda Cynon Taff have reacted with anger and alarm at the threat from the Welsh government to close a fully functioning A&E at Royal Glamorgan hospital near Pontypridd. The cuts at the Royal Glamorgan is part of the South Wales Programme proposed by ...