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Good evening. Patients left without food, water, or the correct | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
medication. Told to go to the toilet in their beds. Tonight the Princess | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
of Wales Hospital in Bridgend finds itself at the centre of a storm | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
about how the NHS cares for elderly people. An independent review found | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
serious failings there and at Neath Port Talbot Hospital. Tonight the | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
First Minister and the Health Minister have apologised to the | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
families of patients, and ordered a Wales-wide inspection of elderly | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
people's care in hospital. The government cannot hide behind | :00:46. | :01:05. | |
this report. All of these families claim to have a story about bad | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
care. Today we were with them when they saw for the first time one of | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
the most damning reports on care standards in Wales. With them is | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
Gareth Williams. A BBC Wales investigation last summer showed his | :01:24. | :01:37. | |
mother was the big Tim of serious neglect. She was sedated against her | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
wishes. The health board apologised, but ever since Mr Williams has led a | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
campaign about poor care for the elderly. It is a public disgrace. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
There must be a public enquiry and in the interim, there must be the | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
removal of the chief executive and the management team. I took up this | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
office in 2013. Serious concerns have been taught to my attention and | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
I have moved quickly to make changes. The team of independent | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
expert spent months talking to patients and their families at Neath | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
Port Talbot Hospital and Princess of Wales Hospital. Some patients were | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
not getting the loop, medication and help they needed. -- the food. There | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
were allegations of older people being told to go to the toilet where | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
they laid in bed. Staff knowingly tolerated hazardous practices. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Sometimes medication was recorded as being given when it wasn't. The | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
report says that managers were distracted trying to cut costs at | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
the expense of quality and patient safety. Questions were also raised | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
about the Welsh Inspectorate not picking up some of the issues. Both | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
the health board and the government say they accept the recommendations. | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
The health minister said checks will be held within months at all Welsh | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
hospitals. As from today I will give health board and NHS trusts in Wales | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
a four week period to absorb the findings of the report and satisfy | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
themselves that such departures from basic professional standards are not | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
present in their organisation. Immediately after that, each | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
hospital in Wales will be visited by a small group of independent | :04:03. | :04:12. | |
experts. But this people's findings contains ominous echoes of the mid | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
Staffordshire scandal. If it smells like a Mid Staffs crisis, it is time | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
for a public enquiry into health care in Wales. In Mid Staffs, the | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
English health service had no idea it had a problem on that scale. | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
Whereas here, by the time we reviewed the situation, the health | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
board new there were robins and were trying to improve them. The report | :04:47. | :04:56. | |
does give some hope. Hopefully things will be turned around, but | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
with ten nurses suspended from duty and police investigation is | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
ongoing, these families are still concerned. They consider themselves | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
to be big tins of a care system that did not care enough. | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Intensive care services for babies in North Wales are to be centralised | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan. The Welsh Government's announcement | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
follows an independent review, which also considered Wrexham Maelor | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
Hospital as the sole location for intensive care for babies. Babies | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
needing the highest care level will go to Arrowe Park Hospital on the | :05:25. | :05:35. | |
Wirral. It is important because it means now we can move forwards to | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
plan neonatal services for the whole of North Wales. It also ends a | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
period of uncertainty or our hard-working staff and also the | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
population of North Wales. A judge at Mold Crown Court has | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
jailed a scout master for 12 years for a series of sex offences against | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
young teenagers in the late 1960s and '70s. Martyn Tucker, who's 68 | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
and from Chester, had admitted the offences. The court heard the scout | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
movement knew of the allegations, but didn't tell the police. Some of | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
the sexual assaults took place on outdoor activity trips in | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
Denbighshire and Flintshire. A mines inspector has told the jury | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
at the Gleision trial that he wasn't notified of any plans to make | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
contact with a disused part of the mine, contrary to industry | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
regulations. Four men drowned at the Swansea Valley pit nearly three | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
years ago. Under cross examination, Tony Forster said he held the mine | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
manager Malcolm Fyfield in high regard. Mr Fyfield denies four | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
counts of manslaughter through gross negligence and the mine operators | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
deny four counts of corporate manslaughter. | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
A charity which gives grants to low income families with disabled or | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
seriously ill children has told BBC Wales it's had to stop allocating | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
money in Wales because of a delay in its funding. The Family Fund | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
normally receives around ?2.6 million a year from the Welsh | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Government. But it hasn't been told yet whether it will get any money | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
this year. The Government has admitted the delay is not desirable, | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
but says a decision will be made very soon. We have over 550 families | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
waiting for grants from the fund. They are waiting for support with | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
items such as cookers, bedding, fridge freezers. We cannot help them | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
because of the delay in receiving funding from the Welsh government. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Some community groups say they're having problems getting energy | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
projects built because there's too much red tape. In a bid to find new | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
sources of income, many are turning to small hydro-electric, wind and | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
solar schemes to generate money by selling power to the National Grid. | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
Our environment correspondent Iolo ap Dafydd reports from Snowdonia. | :07:50. | :08:05. | |
Villages here have formed a regeneration company which turned | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
this old mill into a community centre. It now has planning | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
permission for a hydrophilic trick scheme in the hills nearby. It would | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
generate power for the National Grid and an income for the benefit of the | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
local communities. But the process has been slow. I certainly think it | :08:26. | :08:41. | |
is far too bureaucratic. We are the first community that has had to | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
negotiate with the likes of The National Trust. They been | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
overcautious. In an area of high rainfall, income can be generated | :08:54. | :09:06. | |
from hydroelectricity. The proposal to extract water from a nearby river | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
here was refused and a private scheme was approved on the grounds | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
that it had slightly less environmental impact. It cost us | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
?28,000 to get to the point of getting the licence. It was at that | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
weight they said it had been allocated to another company. After | :09:29. | :09:41. | |
all the reports, it was ridiculous. There will be two new | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
hydroelectricity electricity schemes on this farm. It has cost ?1.6 | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
million, but it will pay for itself in seven years. If you only build | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
one hydro, it is not to be taken lightly. It it was easy everyone | :10:07. | :10:16. | |
will be doing it. Smaller community rejects, despite the good intentions | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
of the authorities, are slowly becoming less affordable as cuts in | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
the grants to produce sustainable energy are being reduced. | :10:28. | :10:41. | |
Rugby, and it's been three years since he last played for Wales, but | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Gavin Henson is among those named in the Wales trial match ahead of their | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
summer tour to South Africa. Warren Gatland is using the game at the | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Liberty Stadium at the end of the month to see the players in action | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
before naming his squad. Cricket, and Hampshire are closing | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
in on a win against Glamorgan, which would send them to the top of | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
Division Two. At the close of play on day three, Glamorgan lead by 64 | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
runs with one wicket remaining. An early wicket would leave Hampshire | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
with a reachable target, as long as conditions permit play. | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
Lets get the weather forecast. Sunshine and showers, but pressure | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
is rising and that is good news for the next few days. Plenty of dry | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
weather heading our way, warming up as well. 16 Celsius in Cardiff | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
today. There is a good chance that somewhere in Wales will heat 22 | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Celsius on Friday. Try across the country tonight and nearly clear. It | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
will be quite chilly with some mist and ground frost in the countryside. | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
A cold start in the morning, but it will be dry. Some lovely sunshine to | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
follow. Heavy downpours and thunderstorms in England today, but | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
it is a different story tomorrow. Many places dry with sunshine and | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
patchy cloud. Some rain in Northern Ireland, spreading eastwards across | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
Scotland June the day. 15 Celsius in Belfast, 19 degrees in London. It | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
will cloud over in the north later in the afternoon. Tomorrow night, | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
maybe a spot of drizzle in the north, but no more than that. It | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
will be missed the in Pembrokeshire with some hill fog. -- it will be | :12:20. | :12:31. | |
misty. Try and settled weather to come. There will be some clouds, but | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
it will warm up and temperatures are to 22 Celsius. Generally dry for the | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
rest of this week and Saturday looks the best day of the weekend. | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
Newsnight has just started over on BBC Two, asking why a former British | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
Defence Secretary is being investigated for war crimes. From | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
all of us on the programme, good night. | :13:02. | :13:02. |