Wales needs to have a strategy to tackle GP shortages according to the British Medical Association (BMA). The BMA said they have anecdotal evidence to suggest that there is a large increase in the number of GPs working part-time in Wales rather than full-time due to increased workplace pressures. A recent survey by…
Diabetes UK Cymru has Awarded a medal to Reverend Dr John Dann, 88 from Cardiff. The Baptist preacher and retired lecturer was diagnosed when he was 17 in 19XX just before going to university when he fell into a diabetic coma. Dr Dann said: “I was weak, I was tired, I was thin,…
Tenovus Cancer Care, Wales’ leading cancer charity, partnered with the Football Association of Wales (FAW) and launched two limited-edition wristbands for this summer’s European Championship. The wristbands were very popular with the pupils at Mountain Ash Comprehensive school who supported the partnership and raised an incredible £450 for the charity. With these special wristbands,…
New MS Joel James has visited Sheppard’s Pharmacy in Abercynon to meet with Gareth Hughes, the superintendent of the practice, to hear about all the benefits of community pharmacist consultations for residents with minor illnesses. Community pharmacist consultations were first introduced in Wales in 2013, and have played an integral part in delivering improvements to…
Year 6 pupils from Cwmdar Primary School have launched a road safety campaign, aimed at positively changing the behaviour of parents and those who drop off and pick up children from school – in a bid to improve pupil wellbeing. Concerned that the busy road outside school, coupled with some pupils not using the green…
Since April, almost 800,000 employees who have been working from home during the pandemic, have already claimed tax relief on household related costs, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed. The saving is worth up to £125 per year for each employee, and eligible workers can claim the full year’s entitlement if they have…
Responding to comments made by Labour’s education minister at the latest government press briefing, Welsh Conservative shadow education minister, Laura Anne Jones MS said: “Our children have been hit incredibly hard by the pandemic and it’s clear we will have to learn to live with this virus as we move forward. “The immediate…
“SUPPORT LIKE THIS WOULD HAVE HELPED MY DAD” The welsh-headquartered law firm, Hugh James, is supporting a new project to help people with asbestos-related cancer in Wales, by giving them better access to specialist support, the best treatment, care, and clinical trials. The project is designed to prevent the fear, isolation and lack of awareness experienced…
The photograph shows a footbridge crossing the River Cynon next to Aberdare Swiming Pool the Bridge that Rhondda Cynon Taf Council demolished to make way for the Aberdare bypass now with taxpayers money the council plan on reinstating the bridge. This is half a job council a bridge over the river but not the bypass why? …
The Council has reached an important landmark in its remediation of the Tylorstown landslip, by completing two major phases of work which have enabled local walking and cycling routes to reopen to the public. The landslip occurred on the Llanwonno hillside at Tylorstown during Storm Dennis in February 2020, when Rhondda Cynon Taf endured record…
