Cllr Maureen Webber, Labour Councillor for Rhydyfelin and Deputy Leader of the Council got a little bit uppity this week when Welsh Lib Dem Councillor Mike Powell reported some flytipping and rubbish accumulating in her ward. Mike had been at work doing his "day job" as a heating engineer in the area when someone mentioned…
The Supreme Court will next week hand down a key ruling on the reasonable adjustments which a bus company is required to make to accommodate disabled wheelchair users. The appellant, Doug Paulley, in FirstGroup Plc v Paulley UKSC 2015/0025 is a permanent wheelchair user who had attempted in 2012 to board a bus operated by FirstGroup. A…
For our Welsh Baccalaureate we decided to work as a group. We decided to run a selection box appeal within our school and local community, and then distribute them to local Nursing Homes. We wanted the people who would be getting the selection boxes to know that we were thinking about them over Christmas, and…
People who have urgent but not life-threatening injuries are being encouraged to visit Minor Injuries Units for treatment. The Units, which are based in Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda and Ysbyty Cwm Cynon, can deal with fractures and joint dislocations, wounds, minor back and neck injuries, bites, eye, ear and nose injuries. Patients who visit the units…
Welsh Conservatives’ spokesperson for health has today raised serious concerns about the £80m new treatment fund – launched today by the Welsh Government – which she says “isn’t new at all”. Angela Burns AM, Welsh Conservative Shadow Secretary for Health, said that the fund merely enables patients expedite the process of accessing drugs that have…
Roger Scully analyses the results of the latest Wales Barometer Poll. Labour have fallen to their lowest levels of support in Wales, for both Westminster and the National Assembly, since before the 2010 general election. This is the stand-out finding to emerge from the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll, the first opinion poll to be…
A senior Welsh doctor has said that A&E units across Wales are in a “state of crisis” this winter, fairing “worse [than] England” in some areas. Welsh Conservatives have responded to the comments, made by Dr Robin Roop, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), by saying that the Welsh NHS needs…
NFU Cymru has made it clear to the Welsh Government that farmers across Wales are ‘as frustrated as they have ever been’ with the impact bovine TB is having on Wales. As part of its formal response to the Welsh Government’s ‘A refreshed TB eradication programme’ consultation document, NFU Cymru said it could not accept…
BANFIELD: Hopes for a measurable change in three years' time Levels of engagement between NHS employers in Wales and the medical workforce are mixed, according to a survey. For the first time, NHS organisations across Wales invited doctors to take part in the Medical Engagement Scale, which aims to measure the level of engagement across…
A DEDICATED service for patients who have fallen in the Aneurin Bevan Health Board area has helped more than 200 people to get back on their feet. The Falls Response Service, which is being run jointly by the Welsh Ambulance Service and Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, aims to provide a timely response for patients…
