Welcome to our health and wellbeing category, where we bring you the latest updates and information on all aspects of physical and mental health.
This week in the Senedd, Gareth Davies MS called for a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, seeking an explanation from the Welsh Government on waiting times in the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board after raising serious concerns about the accuracy and transparency of official waiting time data. Speaking during the…
A former consultant surgeon, Professor Christopher Wood, has been appointed to the Welsh Conservatives to advise them on health, a former member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council and CEO Joanna Knight OBE to advise them on the economy, and leading headteacher Alun Ebenezer to advise them on education in advance of the 2026 Senedd…
Wales’ health service remains under severe financial strain despite significant uplifts in government funding, with all seven health boards failing their statutory duty to break even over the past three years. The latest audit of NHS accounts for 2024-25 shows that while overall revenue funding reached £11.57 billion – an increase of £927 million compared…
Controversial plans that would have seen patients being allocated a dentist for each check-up, rather than staying with a family practice, have been dropped. The Welsh Conservatives have welcomed this Labour U-turn, calling continuity of care “essential”. A new NHS dental contract will instead pay dentists to see people based upon their oral health needs,…
A Welsh Government-funded project planting trees in Uganda hit its target of 25 million trees by 2025, at a cost of around £2 million. Uganda’s export earnings surged by 40% in March 2025, reaching $899.10 million, primarily due to increased sales of gold, coffee, cocoa beans, sugar, fish, and maize. Uganda has unearthed over 31 million metric…
Two of Cynon Valley’s most significant hospitals—Aberdare General Hospital and Mountain Ash Hospital—have now vanished from the local landscape after over a century of service, their sites sold off and demolished to make way for redevelopment. The most prominent of these, Aberdare General Hospital in Abernant, is now the location of a major housing scheme…
Irresponsible dog owners have been warned that if they are caught allowing their dogs to roam on sports pitches, on or off a lead in Rhondda Cynon Taf, they will face a FINE! Dog fouling is a disgusting blight on Rhondda Cynon Taf and has serious health consequences for those using the areas. Rhondda Cynon…
Responding to the latest Labour Welsh Government initiative to try to reduce the hospital discharge backlog, Welsh Conservative Shadow Health Minister, Sam Rowlands MS said: “My concern with Labour’s latest initiative is that it’s all aspiration and arbitrary targets with no additional financial backing or plan to increase social care capacity. “The Welsh Conservatives would…
Commenting on a statement in the Welsh Parliament on the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill, which seeks to eliminate profit from the care sector and a letter from the Welsh Parliament’s Presiding Officer revealing that elements of the Bill are outside the devolved competence of the Labour Welsh Government, Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for…
Responding to reports that the Welsh Government has claimed it does not hold a record of the Ministerial group chat messages that Vaughan Gething said he would delete to avoid being captured by FOI, Andrew RT Davies MS, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, said: “The obfuscation by the Labour Welsh Government over COVID messages is…
