Arbitration call to solve ban on Welsh patients The dispute at an English hospital over Welsh patients has been compared to a similar situation affecting Gobowen hospital back in 2006. Back then, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) in … Continue reading Health bosses urged to settle disputes as ‘grown-ups’
Plaid Cymru’s North Wales AM has today challenged the First Minister to take decisive action over the Countess of Chester Hospital’s decision to bar Welsh patients from referrals. Llyr Gruffydd has raised the matter of patients from Wales being barred … Continue reading First Minister challenged over Countess of Chester Hospital “holding patients to ransom”
North Wales AM, Llyr Gruffydd has pledged to encourage constituents to donate and wear their iconic Marie Curie daffodil throughout February and March to help the charity’s Nurses provide care and support to people living with a terminal illness. Llyr … Continue reading Local AM Llyr Gruffydd pledges to “get behind the daffodil” for Marie Curie this February
Trial support for A&E must continue says Plaid AM The pressures facing two Emergency Department in north Wales have been highlighted by a pilot project run by the Red Cross. Of the 9,000 patients supported across Wales in a one-month … Continue reading Red Cross scheme shows need for more hospital support
Plaid calls out the Welsh Government for their “policy of privatisation” There has been a dramatic increase in the amount Health Boards have spent on outsourcing to private sector healthcare providers. Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price criticised the Labour Welsh … Continue reading Health Boards see dramatic increase on private healthcare funding
Plaid Cymru’s North Wales AM has raised concerns about a private company gaining access to new mothers on maternity units. Llyr Gruffydd AM, in a question to the Leader of the House in the Assembly this week, asked about the … Continue reading North Wales AM questions private company accessing maternity wards
Plaid Cymru Assembly Members have today responded to the publication of the annual National Survey for Wales by criticising the Labour Welsh Government for “failing patients, pupils and parents” as standards slip in health and education under their control. Shadow … Continue reading Labour Welsh Government “failing patients, pupils and parents” as National Survey highlights decline
The Labour Welsh Government has been accused of failing to turn round a struggling health board after three years in direct control. Next week sees Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board meet to agree savings of £45 million to try to … Continue reading Health Board’s £45m savings plan – Labour failing NHS in North Wales
Plaid Cymru’s North Wales AM Llyr Gruffydd said the plans to outsource Wrexham Maelor’s Dialysis Unit were at an advanced stage and he had been approached by concerned health board staff about the implications. Mr Gruffydd said: “The contract to provide … Continue reading Dialysis services in Wrexham Maelor could be privatised “under First Minister Carwyn Jones’s watch”
Doctors need better support from the Cardiff Labour Government to ensure there are more GPs available in north Wales. That’s the view of Plaid Cymru’s North Wales AM Llyr Gruffydd, who called on the First Minister to provide more support … Continue reading GPs need better support from Welsh Government
