When the Director of Education and the Labour Cabinet in RCT decided to make guinea pigs out of Rhondda pupils and create two 3 to 16 and one 11 to 16 schools they held up the new "super school" at Aberdare as a shining beacon of light showing how great education would become. This despite…
RoSPA has launched a survey to evaluate its child car seat website and identify ways it can be improved. The website, www.childcarseats.org.uk, provides advice and information to anyone responsible for transporting infants and children. It covers the types of car seats available, child car seat fitting and compatibility, the law and issues around carrying other people’s…
Staff at Cwm Taf University Health Board will plant 70 trees across their hospital and community healthcare sites to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the NHS. The trees will be planted across Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf in hospital and health park grounds; patient rehabilitation areas; well-being gardens as well as community healthcare settings to…
Macmillan warns that Wales’ failure to meet nationally set cancer treatment targets means 96 people faced treatment delays in March this year alone. Highlighting the Welsh Government’s latest cancer treatment waiting times, published today, Macmillan Wales is concerned that both the 31-day and 62-day targets are being missed with such consistency. While there were…
The future provision of high quality services for patients at two GP practices has been secured following a decision by Cwm Taf University Health Board to return the surgeries to independent contractors. The Health Board can announce that, from October 2018, Hillcrest Surgery in Mountain Ash will be merging with Rhos House Surgery and Brookside…
