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Good evening. Cutting NHS funding in Wales may be responsible for longer | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
waiting times. That's according to a major new report by the Nuffield | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Trust and the health foundation, which has compared the health | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
service across the UK. Also suggests there is no evidence to show the NHS | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
as a whole is lagging behind. What seems to be a simple question | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
can sometimes take a long time to answer. Six academics worked for | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
more than two years are trying to figure out whether Wales, Scotland, | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
England or Northern Ireland and the best performing health service. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
What's clear from this study is that on lots of health targets that | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
measure time, such as ambulance response times and the amount of | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
time patients have to wait for common hospital procedures, the NHS | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
in Wales is struggling to keep up with other countries in the UK. Up | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
until 2009, waiting times in Wales for things like hip, knee and | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
coronary artery bypass surgery improved a lot. But since then, | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
they've deteriorated and lengthened again. Peter Bishop knows what | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
that's like. He spent more than a year waiting for his hip | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
replacement. They told me that they'd get me fixed as soon as | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
possible. I didn't see him again for at least nine months. So why are | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Welsh patients waiting so much longer? We can't be certain about | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
why that happened but one point is very clear - that Wales was the only | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
one of the four countries which actually cut its expenditure on | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
health in 2010 for three years. And, actually, one of the things you | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
would expect in that climate, as money gets tight, is that waiting | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
times would lengthen. Decision was made the start of this Assembly term | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
to make sure that we protected the social services side. Over the last | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
ten years we have succeeded in reducing and reducing the number of | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
people who are delayed in hospital beds when they don't need to be | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
there. Those figures are now at an all-time low. But some of the | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
findings are more encouraging. Rates of preventable deaths are lower here | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
than in Scotland and Northern Ireland and the North East of | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
England, which has a similar demographic to Wales. And Welsh | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
patients are the most satisfied with the way the NHS is run. But they're | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
the least happy about their experiences of staying in hospital. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
But not every aspect of health care was covered in this study and in | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
other areas, like social care, bed blocking and cancer waits, the Welsh | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
Government argues it's ahead of the pack. 51-year-old Fiona Bailey from | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Cardiff was told last year she had breast cancer. It took less than two | :03:00. | :03:11. | |
weeks for her to see a specialist. I was diagnosed in October and | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
everything's just moved so swiftly since then. I haven't had to wait | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
for any treatment dates. In Llangollen today, the Prime Minister | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
and the Health Secretary renewed their attacks on Welsh Labour's | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
health record. A health union has called on them to apologise to staff | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
and the Welsh health minister says today's study demolishes their | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
claims. His utterly unfounded assertion has been that somehow in | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Wales things are uniquely bad and everything is fine in his own | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
backyard and hear things are awful. What this report tells you is that | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
that is absolutely not the case. But opposition parties argue the study | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
is clearly not a glowing endorsement of Welsh Labour's health record. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
They claim it proves patients have to clock up many more hours, days | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
and months waiting, simply because they live in Wales. | :03:59. | :04:10. | |
So, attacks on the NHS here dominating the opening day of the | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
Welsh Conservatives party conference in Llangollen. The Prime Minister | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
described Offa's Dyke as the line between life and death. | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
These upholsterers in Holywell are the kind of people the Prime | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Minister thinks have the right ambition for Wales. In his address | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
to the party faithful in Llangollen, ambition was his | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
favourite word. He used it 18 times. Most of what he said was about the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
economy. His main claim was that Wales is not only sharing in the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
recovery but leading it. The UK capital for jobs growth is right | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
here in Wales. That's because we have a serious, long-term economic | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
plan. And that plan is working. David Cameron tried to balance the | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
positive with the negative but the criticism, when it came, about the | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Welsh Government's stewardship of the NHS was further than he's gone | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
before. One in seven people in Wales is on an NHS waiting list. We have a | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
cancer drugs fund in England but not here. And I tell you, when Offa's | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Dyke becomes the line between life and death, we are witnessing a | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
national scandal. Earlier the man who runs the NHS in England, Jeremy | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
Hunt, came to Wales with a message that the NHS here was sleepwalking | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
into a Mid Staffs. This was the hospital scandal in England in which | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
years of neglect and abuse contributed to a number of | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
unnecessary deaths. You think it's morally wrong what the Welsh | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Government is doing? It is morally indefensible to try to sweep poor | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
care under the carpet. And we have had in England over the last year a | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
very uncomfortable and difficult transparency revolution. We've said | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
in our NHS, which we love to bits, where we find things that are going | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
wrong, we're going to deal with them. Some within the party have | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
been uneasy about the Conservative strategy as being too negative. That | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
concern was nowhere to be seen in Llangollen this weekend. | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
A 19-year-old man who was injured in an explosion in a field at his home | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
in Pembrokeshire has been arrested. Jordan Smith was airlifted to | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
hospital after the incident in the village of Wiston yesterday. His | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
condition is stable. The property has been cordoned off and search. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Police say he's been arrested on suspicion of an explosive related | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
offence. A banking industry could be based in Wrexham has announced plans | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
to create 200 jobs. It provides research and information | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
to banks and other financial institutions and employs 220 people | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
at the moment. Avox will double its workforce by 2016 to stop police are | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
continuing to investigate the sudden death of a 15-year-old boy in | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Swansea, the 15-year-old was found yesterday morning. | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
The death of the teenager, who was a pupil at a nearby comprehensive | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
school, is being treated as unexplained. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
In football, Cardiff city have launched disciplinary action against | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
two members of staff over claims that their team was leaked to | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Crystal Palace in advance of last Saturday's pre-0 defeat. The club's | :07:19. | :07:34. | |
-- numeric pre-0. I've built my life on loyalty and honesty. That's the | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
values I get from my mum and dad. In football, you need to stick | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
together. We stick together. We're glued together and this week has | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
proved that. In Rugby, Cardiff Blues have beaten Edinburgh away by | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
29-22. Meanwhile, the ospreys also went to night, beating Leinster | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
25-19. Time for the weather. Not looking | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
too bad for the weekend. Mostly settled. It will be cloudy on | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Saturday and generally sunnier on Sunday. Tonight is largely dry, | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
turning chilly with some ground frost forming in sheltered rural | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
spots but clouding over further west by dawn. That's thanks to a cold | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
front which brings increasing cloud through tomorrow and there is rain | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
on this, too. Tomorrow, the best of any brightness early on further | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
south and east. A similar morning across England but that front pushes | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
through Scotland and Northern Ireland and then the breeze picks | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
up. Cloud thickens. Some light rain and drizzle reaches Wales and the | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
North West of England by the afternoon. Highs of ten in the North | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
West of Scotland, 15 in the south-east of England. Tomorrow | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
afternoon, that band of rain peters out as it moves the south-east would | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
across Wales, so not huge amounts of rain tomorrow. A fresh westerly | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
breeze and highs of 11 Celsius along Cardigan Bay, up to 13 in | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Denbighshire. The front continues to clear south-east would into Sunday | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
morning and a ridge of high pressure builds back in from the Azores so | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
chilly start on Sunday with a touch of frost possible. More in the way | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
of sunshine on Sunday. Can't rule out a shower but it will stay fine | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
and dry for most. Highs of ten to 14. The settled spell continues into | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
next week with high-pressure dominating on Monday and Tuesday. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Largely dry with more fine weather. Clearer by day and colder by night, | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
so a continued risk of frost. Still some uncertainty about next week but | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
you can keep up-to-date on our website. | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
That's all for today. There will be updates over the weekend from 6:30pm | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
tomorrow. From all of us here, have a great weekend. | :10:02. | :10:02. |